Actually, this is not a particularly outrageous answer.

Since Cheng Guangnian undoubtedly said that the old house in his family has nothing to do with him, and he has not taken a penny from Cheng Qingsong's sale of the old house, then in Cheng Yu's opinion, he is willing to unconditionally believe in Cheng Guangnian at this point.

Cheng Guangnian is by no means a person who would lie about this kind of thing.

Although Cheng Yu and Cheng Guangnian spent a very short time together after being sensible, Cheng Yu felt that he still knew his father quite well.

And Cheng Guangle and Cheng Guangtian naturally haven't seen this money, otherwise they wouldn't be angry about it.

Cheng Jie was only a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl twenty years ago, and Cheng Yu would never feel that this money was taken away by Cheng Jie.

Therefore, the money from the final sale of this old house can only be used by Cheng Qingsong himself.

At that time, China's real estate market had not yet fully reached the level of free trading, but that didn't mean that old homes with title deeds like this couldn't be sold.

It's like twenty or thirty years ago, there were people in the imperial capital who only spent tens of thousands of yuan to get a set of courtyard houses.

In the description of his father's generation, the old house of the Cheng family may be larger than an ordinary courtyard house.

Even 20 years ago, when the real estate free market was not fully opened, and only in a limited number of cities as a pilot era, Cheng Yu estimated that the value of the old house was at least more than 100,000 yuan.

Although in the mid-to-late nineties, the title of 10,000 yuan household is no longer often mentioned, but an ordinary family can only take out only 30,000 yuan or 20,000 yuan in cash.

At that time, people did not have too many mortgage loans to buy houses, and buying and selling houses were usually cash transactions, even in Wudong, a city that was enough to rank among the top ten in the country, people who could come up with six-figure cash in one fell swoop, I dare not say that there were only a handful, but there were never too many.

Since the money from the sale of this house did not fall into the hands of any Cheng family, but was used by Cheng Qingsong to repay debts, then after 20 years, with the status of the Cheng family in Wudong today, it is impossible for Cheng Guangnian not to find out the truth of that year.

After all, there are only so many people who could afford to eat this old mansion twenty years ago.

The old house is still there after all, Du Changfeng told Cheng Yu that the old house has not been demolished and destroyed because of the process of urbanization.

It's just that the old mansion seems to have been donated to the government, and the government funded the construction of a building complex around the old mansion, which has become a museum group that witnesses the history of Wudong.

It seems that after research, the original builder of the old mansion was an official of the Ming Dynasty. Later, in the late Qing Dynasty, there was also a famous singer, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, it is said that this famous singer was also received by the national leader.

Of course, this is not the main residence of the Ming Dynasty official, but an annex among his many properties, and the famous lady is not a descendant of the official, but a descendant of the concubine.

Overall, it was not difficult for buyers to find back then, after all, in the territory of Wudong, there was no one more rich in personal wealth than Cheng Guangnian, even if the other party's family had a long history, when Cheng Guangnian asked about this house, the other party would never have anything to hide.

Of course, this is for Cheng Guangnian.

It will not be too easy for other people in the Cheng family, or outsiders, to investigate this matter.

Maybe they can also know from the government who the buyers were back then, but if they want the other party to tell the truth about the purchase of the house back then, some people are not qualified, and some people have nothing to do with it.

Even, Cheng Yu can imagine that since Cheng Guangnian must be able to investigate the hidden situation behind this old mansion, and he did not make this matter public through any channels to prove his innocence. Then, maybe Cheng Guangnian will also ask the other party to keep it a secret after he gets the answer.

The other party should be very willing to help Cheng Guangnian.

However, why didn't Cheng Guangnian reveal it?

And why does Cheng Qingsong owe such a huge amount of money?

You must know that twenty years ago, this house represented at least ten or two hundred thousand yuan, which was definitely a huge amount of money. At the end of the 90s, in the center of Wudong, a two-bedroom apartment of about 70 square meters was sold for only 40,000 or 50,000 yuan, and the average price was less than 1,000 yuan.

Many people say that if they could go back to the 90s, their best investment option would be to buy a property that was incredibly cheap at the time, given that they could not know the exact lottery winning numbers.

Of course, this can only be a joke, not to mention that it is impossible to turn back time, even if it can be turned back, back then, how many people were able to buy a large number of properties?

If you really have the ability to buy real estate in large quantities, investing in any field at that time may actually be more terrifying than the appreciation of real estate.

In fact, in the society at that time, even those who could afford to buy a property were very few.

At that time, a six-figure sum of money could definitely be called a huge amount of money.

Cheng Yu looked at Wang Shuran, who was still lighting the fireworks, and asked, "Grandpa, how much did you sell our old house?"

Cheng Qingsong frowned, pondered for a long time, and soon waved his hands impatiently, saying, "I can't remember, I can't remember, who can remember so many things...... You're so annoying, I'm going to set off fireworks, where do you have so many problems. Anyway, I sold the house and used the money to pay off the debt. ”

Cheng Yu is helpless, Cheng Qingsong's brain is like this, he is sober for a while, and you don't know when he will suddenly be able to answer your questions seriously.

Moreover, Cheng Yu couldn't bear to persecute Cheng Qingsong, in fact, it was enough for Cheng Yu to analyze a lot of things to prove from Cheng Qingsong's mouth that the money from the sale of the house was used by him to pay off his debts.

If he needs to know the whole truth of that year, he can ask Cheng Guangnian.

He believes that Cheng Guangnian must know the whole truth of that year.

patted the old man on the shoulder, Cheng Yu said, "Okay, okay, I won't ask, let's go set off fireworks." ”

"Is this my good grandson!" The wrinkles on Cheng Qingsong's face were squeezed into a pile again.

Holding Cheng Yu's hand, Cheng Qingsong ran to Wang Shuran, who was lighting a firework, and shouted as he ran: "Don't move, I'll light the fire!"

After running two steps, Cheng Qingsong suddenly stopped again, he turned his head and said to Cheng Yu suddenly: "Actually, I sold that house in nineties."

It's just that I told the other party that the house can let us live in it for another ten years, and I must let the house pass the hurdles of the new century in my hands.

I have already got the money, and I have already used it to pay off my debts.

Three hundred and eighty thousand, that's a lot of money. ”

After that, the old man shook off Cheng Yu's hand and rushed towards Wang Shuran.

Cheng Yu was stunned again.

Did it sell in '90? Moreover, it sold for 380,000 in '90?

At that time, even the imperial capital did not start to carry out real estate reform, can real estate be bought and sold at will?

Cheng Yu vaguely remembers that China's housing reform was proposed in the 80s, but it was not until 92 that substantive reforms really began. Prior to this, in 91, a pilot project was set up in the imperial capital to determine the transition from public housing to private housing.

Subsequently, the pilot cities were expanded, and it was only in 92 that comprehensive reforms were really proposed and implemented.

But Cheng Qingsong actually said that he had sold the house in the nineties.

Moreover, it was sold for a price of 380,000.

Cheng Yu does not have a deep understanding of the price level of the last century, and what he can compare is mainly a series of income levels about that era obtained from the textbooks he studied.

Around 90 years, the income of urban workers was roughly between 70 yuan and 150 yuan, and at that time, 10,000 households were definitely solid big dogs.

Television sets had just begun the transition process from black and white to color in those days, and the price of a domestic color TV was as high as two or three thousand, and dual-income families needed to use at least two to three years of savings to exchange for a color TV that seemed extremely high-end at the time.

At that time, the implementation of enterprise workers to raise funds to build houses had already begun.

Taking Wudong as an example, a two-bedroom apartment of 60 or 70 square meters, fully funded staff housing, probably requires about 10,000 yuan from the employees of the enterprise.

This means that the house price that year was only more than 100 yuan, and even taking into account the possible increase caused by the market, it usually did not exceed 200 yuan per square meter.

Of course, the old house is not the same as the building financed by the enterprise, just as the unit price of a villa cannot be equated with a commercial house, after all, the land area is everything.

It's just that at that time, the government had not yet started the later process of selling land, and the land price was at a relatively low level.

Cheng Yu estimated that the price of this kind of old house at that time, according to the market at that time, was at best 300 yuan per square meter.

Three hundred and eighty thousand, this is almost two acres of land.

So, is Lao Cheng the rich second generation?

Of course, Cheng Guangnian, the rich second generation, does not seem to enjoy the real benefits of the rich second generation.

380,000, can you transport a car of color TVs back to Wudong?

Cheng Yu didn't continue to ask Cheng Qingsong anything, he felt that this mystery should be left to Cheng Guangnian to solve for himself.

The fireworks brought by Wang Shuran were finally finished, and the time came to 3:40.

Cheng Qingsong looked like he hadn't had enough fun, and Cheng Yu was so good that he persuaded him to get into the car reluctantly.

Back at home, the kitchen has already begun to serve a steady stream of food in the hall.

The number of people is not much, but it is not too much.

The four families, except for Cheng Yu, the other younger generations are not married. Even if there are boyfriends and girlfriends, the Cheng family will never allow them to appear at such a time.

Including Cheng Qingsong, there are a total of fifteen people.

In the past, most of the time, it would be divided into two tables.

The elders, mainly the men, sit at one table, and the women sit at the other table with their children.

But in recent years, the younger generations in the family, including the youngest Wang Shuran, have also reached adulthood, so this distinction is not so strict.

Adult children also began to gradually move to the men's table, and last year, it was really a table for men and a table for women.

This year, Cheng Guangnian simply made a large table large enough to seat twenty people, so that everyone could sit at the same table.

Compared with previous years, this year there is actually one more Du Xiaoyu, but one less Wang Hai, so the number of people is actually exactly the same.

Cheng Guangnian stood at the table, except for Cheng Qingsong, everyone was still standing.

He didn't sit down, and there was no second person who dared to sit down.

Cheng Guangnian was on the phone.

"Hey, Old Du, where are you? I said you don't have to come too early, but you're too late. We're here for you to start. ”

Cheng Yu was stunned when he heard it.

Huh?

Could it be Du Changfeng?

He looked at Du Xiaoyu, and Du Xiaoyu was also puzzled.

Cheng Guangnian hung up the phone and said, "This year's Chinese New Year, I invited Lao Du and his family over.

There are three of them in the family, in the past, they were all right, and this year even their daughter went to our house for the New Year.

I'm afraid that they will be lonely, so I just let them come to our house for the New Year. Anyway, it's a family, so everyone has no opinion, right?"

Who can have an opinion on this? Naturally, everyone laughed and said that it was very good, and Cheng Jie also smiled and said that Du Changfeng and Wei Lan came, and the average wealth of these people in the house suddenly increased a lot, and everyone burst into laughter.

Within a few minutes, Du Changfeng and Wei Lan's car came to the door.

As half a son and the young master of the family, Cheng Yu naturally wanted to go out to greet him.

"Dad, Mom, Happy New Year. You guys did a good job of secrecy, you didn't tell us last night that you were coming here today to celebrate the New Year together. Cheng Yu smiled and greeted the steps.

Du Changfeng patted him on the shoulder and said, "Your mother and I were also quite surprised, we only received a call from your father at nine o'clock in the morning."

Ask us what we plan for this year's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but your mother snatched the phone, and said sourly that her daughter was snatched away by your family, can't our father and mother just be alone and tear each other?

Then your father smiled and said let's just two families and eat this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together. ”

Du Xiaoyu held Wei Lan, and Cheng Yu accompanied Du Changfeng and walked into the gate together.

Naturally, everyone came to say hello to them, even if the marriage of Cheng Du's family is excluded, Du Changfeng is still a pivotal figure in the city, except for Cheng Guangnian, everyone else really has to take him seriously.

Du Changfeng and Wei Lan also responded one by one with a smile, and prepared a red envelope for each junior.

"I'm sorry guys, I'm late.

Guangnian suddenly invited my wife and me to his house in the morning for the New Year, and he originally said that it would be better to come over in the early afternoon to talk for a while.

But our husband and wife feel that it is already very embarrassing to come over for dinner, and I am afraid that coming too early will affect the family reunion of your Cheng family.

Therefore, I applied with Guangnian to try to come over with a meal.

The habits of each family are different, and there are always only three people in our family for the New Year, so it is similar to usual, basically waiting until it is dark to start eating Chinese New Year's Eve.

So I figured it would be right for me to arrive before five o'clock.

But I didn't expect it to be late, sorry, sorry. ”

Du Changfeng arched his hands and gave everyone to accompany him.

Everyone naturally said that it was okay, and Cheng Guangnian also said: "Okay, don't say these words, neither of us is an outsider."

I think, in the future, if there is a New Year's festival or something, it will be just two families and one family.

Lao Du, what do you think?"

Du Changfeng smiled, and after a slight pause, he said, "I'm afraid it will disturb you." ”

It's very tactful, but in fact, everyone can hear the refusal.

Cheng Guangnian didn't seem to expect Du Changfeng to choose to refuse, his eyebrows raised slightly, and he couldn't say what he had prepared before.

Seeing this, Ning Kezhu hurriedly stepped forward to play the round: "Hehe, Guangnian, you think you are enthusiastic, although Lao Du and his family are not outsiders, they may not think it is appropriate." You see, at this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, they sent so many red envelopes, even our father insisted on one to go. A few red envelopes down, the cost is too high, Wei Lan, do you say it's a little distressing?"

Wei Lan also hurriedly smiled and said: "That's it, Lao Du is just a little picky, a few red envelopes, you see that he feels distressed like this." ”

Of course, everyone knew that this was a joke, but the subtle sense of stagnation just now also disappeared with the joke of the two women.

"Alright, let's all take a seat. Lao Cheng, can you consciously sit down first, if you don't sit, do you think anyone dares to sit down?" Cheng Yu greeted Zhang Luo, and then said to Du Changfeng: "Dad, you sit here, sit with Lao Cheng." ”

pulled Du Changfeng and walked to the side of the main seat.

In fact, Cheng Qingsong was supposed to sit in the main seat, but Cheng Qingsong has always had a habit, that is, as long as Cheng Yu is at home, he must eat next to Cheng Yu.

If the old man sits on the main seat, Cheng Yu has to sit on the main side, so how can Cheng Guangnian's fathers still sit down?

Therefore, the Cheng family has formed a habit, Cheng Guangnian sits on the main seat, and Cheng Guangle and Cheng Guangtian sit on the main companion on both sides of him.

But this year, there are more Du Changfeng, even if Cheng Guangle and Cheng Guangtian are a little two hundred and five, they will never dare to rush ahead of Du Changfeng.

Moreover, this year is a little different, in the past, there were basically separate tables for men and women, and it was easy to distinguish the seats of several men.

This year, there are all the women in the family, should they let the couples sit together, or break up and separate?

Even though Cheng Guangnian and Du Changfeng were already seated, the others looked at each other a little.

"I suggest that either the men sit on the head and the women sit down, and the men have to drink, so it's more convenient. Mom, sit down on the throne. Belch...... Mom, sit next to my own mother. After Cheng Yu finished calling his mother, he suddenly felt a little awkward, like this situation of two mothers at a table, I really haven't encountered it.

This arrangement is not bad, Cheng Guangnian nodded slowly, and Ning Kezhu also sat down on the next main seat.

Cheng Yu asked Cheng Qingsong to sit next to Cheng Guangtian, and he also sat down next to Cheng Qingsong. There was still time next to him, Cheng Yi and Cheng Mo both walked to the opposite side silently and sat beside Cheng Guangle.

It was Cheng Fu who actually walked up to Cheng Yu and said, "Brother, I'll sit next to you?"

Cheng Yu glanced at him deeply and said, "Sit wherever you want, our generation doesn't have so many rules." After that, I glanced at Cheng Guangle opposite, no matter what, it was always a little strange for a son to suddenly sit opposite his father.

Cheng Guangnian also seemed to notice this, and also looked here a few more times.

Of course, Cheng Fu himself knows best, after he sat down, he kept asking Cheng Yu about the situation, one moment asking him about the situation in the United States, and the other time asking him about returning to China to start a business this year.

From time to time, he provoked a big thumb, accompanied by various praises, showing a fan brother and extremely adoring Cheng Yu.

Seeing that he is so enthusiastic, it seems that he can explain his intention of sitting next to Cheng Yu.

When the dishes were ready, Ning Kezhu left his seat to arrange for the chefs to leave, and each stuffed a big red envelope.

Although it is said that I still have to work overtime in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and it is a little late to take care of my own Chinese New Year's Eve dinner after I go back, but for the sake of such a big red envelope, the chef is still very happy.

After sending off the chef and returning to his position, Cheng Guangnian began his speech as a "parent".

For this link, Cheng Yu is the least interested.

Therefore, he didn't care what Cheng Guangnian was talking about, he just helped Cheng Qingsong to hold the dishes, and Cheng Qingsong was very happy to watch.

A plate is full, and Cheng Guangnian's words are not over yet.

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