Chapter 44: The Distant Love
The next day, when Huang Siyao was inserting a tall phalaenopsis orchid in a glass vase, Zhang Haifei asked her: "Siyao, do you know that there is a rumor that you are going to give birth to an heir for the Zhang family?" ”
Huang Siyao felt frightened, her eyes were dark, but she still stood still fiddling with the flowers.
"Nothing!" She said, "Is it a joke or malicious slander?" ”
He hesitated and said, "Hopefully, neither." I hope it's a prophecy. ”
"I received a letter from my dad this morning, saying that he accepted my aunt's invitation on my behalf to go on vacation to Singapore and Malaysia in July and August. ”
"July and August?" Zhang Haifei asked.
"Oh, I won't stay that long. Surely you are not going? ”
"I'm not going to travel abroad." Zhang Haifei blurted out.
Huang Siyao put the flowers on the windowsill and asked, "Do you mind if I go?" But you know, going there for the summer, it's a promise. ”
"And how long are you going?"
"About three weeks."
For a moment both of them were silent.
"Okay!" Zhang Haifei said slowly and a little gloomily, "I think I can hold on for three weeks, as long as you convince me that you want to come back." ”
"I should want to come back." Huang Siyao said very simply, convinced that she would definitely come back. She had another man in mind.
Zhang Haifei felt that her words were true, and he believed her. He believed that she was doing this for his good, and he felt great comfort.
"Well," he said, "what do you say?" ”
"That's what I thought too." She said.
"You're happy with the change of environment, aren't you?"
She looked up at him, a strange look in her eyes.
"I'd like to go to Sentosa again," she said, "certainly not for gambling, I don't have that hobby!" I don't like aunts and uncles either. They always think they are superior. However, it would have been nice if my sister had gone there too and we had rented a car ourselves, well, that would have been great. I wish you could go too. ”
She said it sincerely, and she wanted to make him happy in this way.
"Hey, just think about what it looks like when I take a car to Luohu to pass through customs, or go to Hong Kong to register. Alas, how embarrassing! ”
"What's that! I've seen the wounded in war carried in wheelchairs. There's no shame at all! ”
"Then we'll have to take two workers to take care of us."
"Oh, no! Take Bo Tai with you, there will always be a nurse over there. ”
But Zhang Haifei still shook his head and said, "Not this year!" Not this year! Maybe I can try it next year. ”
Huang Siyao left depressedly. Next year! What can happen next year? She didn't really want to go to Singapore herself, not now, because she had another man now. But she had to go, it seems, to obey discipline. There is another reason why she wants to go, that is, if she is pregnant with a child, Zhang Haifei will think that she has a lover in Xinma.
It's already May, and it's time for them to leave in June. It's always these arrangements! A person's life is always arranged! It's like a wheel that spins with you, forcing you to spin, but there's nothing you can do about it!
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It was May, summer hadn't arrived yet, and it started to rain. Huang Siyao had to go to Longgang, Shenzhen, and heard that the village where their house was located had begun to talk about demolition.
She went alone, and the young driver drove her.
Shenzhen is like one of the four first-tier cities, highly developed, but in the village, there are not many changes. Urban villages are full of filth, lack of rules, and cause anxiety.
In terms of the value of space, because it is cheap, it produces agglomeration and vitality, and if we want vitality, we must be able to accommodate those cultures that we don't want.
Huang Siyao is of course familiar with the urban village, but it is the first time that he has come to see his own peasant house. The house here is like a building block, the road is like a labyrinth, and the three religions and nine streams are natural.
However, Huang Siyao is not disgusted with urban villages at all, because they are so vibrant. She even fell in love with it as soon as she came here! That's right, vitality, human vitality!
The inhabitants of this urban village are not all the "bottom people" as the outside world thinks, but on the contrary, they are very wealthy villagers, blue-collar workers and small traders with good incomes, well-educated young people, they may be programmers, they may be designers, they may be civil servants, it is a very rich and wonderful ecosystem, completely different from the negative shantytowns and slums.
She would even like to move here if she could! People here always want to get out of here, but she wants to stay here.
She met with the old renovation commissioner who was negotiating demolition and relocation, and it was the first time she had come into contact with such a person. It was a tall and thin young man under thirty years old, with long hair, who tentatively quoted the price to Huang Siyao and pulled out a list.
Huang Siyao looked at it, the ratio of demolition is 1:1.2, and if you compensate in cash, it will be 15,000 yuan per square meter. Huang Siyao made a rough calculation, the five buildings have a total of 5,000 square meters, and the cash compensation can get 75 million. She was stunned!
However, what is even more amazing is that the surrounding house price is 30,000 yuan per square meter, and according to the market price, the compensation in kind is 150 million yuan!
What's even more uncomfortable is that it is 2015, and Shenzhen's housing prices are on the eve of an outbreak that is about to shock the whole country. In another year, these five peasant houses will be worth 300 million.
Her heart was pounding, and she was even wondering if she had the courage to leave the Zhang family. Her 200,000 is a joke in front of this point and 500 million.
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Si Yao also stopped by to visit Elder Qiye Wen. Wen Lao, who had been a soldier, was getting thinner and thinner, but he no longer wanted to go for a walk in the garden after dinner, and he almost hid in the house and did not go out.
Shortly after Si Yao visited him, he died suddenly. He left Zhang Haifei a considerable fortune in his will.