As before, the high-altitude program performances and interactive programs did not last long and ended after about half an hour.

After that, the plane was very quiet. Everyone read the newspaper, chatted, and slept. Anyway, they were all at peace.

Of course, during this period, the stewardess also delivered several in-flight meals, including drinks and so on, which surprised Qinghong.

It's just that Qinghong is introverted after all, and she doesn't ask questions or chatter. Instead, she is a little shy of strangers and doesn't dare to take many things. This is completely different from the character of her best friend Xiaozhen.

Cao Zhiqiang, on the other hand, took the initiative to explain to Qinghong very considerately, telling her that these are free, you can take them if you want, and drink them if you want.

In this way, the plane landed at the Capital Airport easily and safely.

When Cao Zhiqiang and Qing Hong got off the plane, collected their luggage and walked out of the airport, a group of solicitors immediately gathered around them.

At first, Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to pay attention, but then he thought about it and ordered a motorized tricycle driver and asked him to take him to the Xinqiao Hotel.

The reason for going here is very simple, that is, he wants to settle Qinghong here first.

Although Cao Zhiqiang now owns many houses, none of them are suitable for Qinghong to live in.

First of all, the old courtyard is being renovated and there are so many people and it’s definitely not appropriate to go to Qinghong.

As for the house by Longtan West Lake, Jin Xiuying lives there. With Jin Xiuying's temper, Qinghong may not get along with her.

The house I rented near the Central Academy of Drama was not suitable either. Not to mention the small place, my two younger sisters were not very fuel-efficient, so they probably wouldn't welcome Qinghong's sudden appearance.

So, we can only let Qinghong stay in a hotel first, and then rent it, or buy a house for Qinghong to live in.

To be honest, today's Xinqiao Hotel, although dining has been opened up, ordinary people can come here to eat Western food, but the guest rooms are not like this, and they are not accessible to ordinary people.

The guest rooms of Xinqiao Hotel are generally used to receive foreign guests and leaders. In other words, if you want to stay here, you must provide a letter of introduction. Without a letter of introduction, you cannot check in.

However, that is under normal circumstances, and it is not actually that strict.

Even if you don't have a letter of introduction, as long as you pay enough money, such as paying a deposit of 200 yuan in advance, or paying enough room fees for a few days in advance, you can still move in.

What’s more, it’s all about the food here, and they won’t make things difficult for some respectable people.

For example, last time, when Cao Zhiqiang and Hao Shuwen came to have dinner for the first time, Cao Zhiqiang easily opened a room for Hao Shuwen afterwards and asked the waiter to help her to the guest room to rest. There was no letter of introduction that time.

At first, Cao Zhiqiang didn't think much about it, but later, through conversation, he found out that the reason why Cao Zhiqiang opened a room for Hao Shuwen so easily last time was entirely because almost everyone there knew Hao Shuwen.

In other words, Hao Shuwen is a frequent visitor to Xinqiao Hotel, and the people there also know Hao Shuwen's background, so once they see that Hao Shuwen is checking in, it is a green light, and no one will ask you for a letter of introduction.

But if you want to try it with someone else, the waiter will definitely change his face and definitely ask you for a letter of introduction.

Of course, it was precisely because of the experience of booking a room for Hao Shuwen that the room manager of that hotel knew Cao Zhiqiang from then on, at least by face.

So this time, if Cao Zhiqiang wants to come and check in, he doesn't need any letter of introduction, he just needs to pay money.

To put it bluntly, in the capital of this period, large hotels with the word "hotel" in them were generally not accessible to ordinary people.

However, just because Cao Zhiqiang met Hao Shuwen by chance, and even opened a room for Hao Shuwen, and people knew that he was related to Hao Shuwen, he could use Hao Shuwen's face and of course his own ability to lead Qing Qing.

Hong checked into this "foreign-related hotel" that ordinary people cannot stay in!

This is what people in the capital commonly call "face"!

That's right, as long as you have face and money, you can still easily stay in some places that ordinary people cannot move into.

Of course, Qinghong didn't know the details inside. She just felt that this hotel was so grand, luxurious and comfortable. It was far beyond the comparison of the third hotel in Guiyang, let alone the small hotel she had stayed in before.

However, along the way, she was surprised a lot. She was surprised, and she got used to it.

Cao Zhiqiang was not interested in explaining so much to her. He just opened a room for her and explained some precautions, such as how to use the in-room phone to request room service, how to eat, how to go out, etc.

Not only that, Cao Zhiqiang also gave her a phone number, which was the phone number of Cao Zhiqiang's unit, that is, the Hongguang World Magazine Department of Hongguang Machinery Factory, and said that if something couldn't be handled, she could call him on that number.

But basically, as long as Qinghong doesn't leave the hotel, there will generally be no problem.

After giving some advice and giving Qinghong another five hundred yuan, Cao Zhiqiang said goodbye to Qinghong.

After all, Qinghong staying in a hotel is not a long-term solution, she still has to buy a suite as soon as possible, and then hide her beauty in a golden house.

Considering various factors, especially distance, Cao Zhiqiang decided to visit Houhai and Xihai.

During this period, there was no so-called housing agency. Generally, the people responsible for housing agency duties were neighborhood committees in various places, except for the uncles and aunts who walked around the streets.

So if you want to rent or buy a house, just go to the local neighborhood committee and ask.

Not to mention, when Cao Zhiqiang came to the neighborhood committee near Shichahai and asked, there were actually quite a few people selling their houses.

After choosing again and again, Cao Zhiqiang chose a courtyard house located at the east end of Dongming Hutong, along Houhai Lake to the north.

The area of ​​this courtyard is not large, only about 800 square meters in total. It is a typical three-entry courtyard, but the location is quite good.

You can see Houhai across a street as soon as you go out in the north. Houhai Park is not far to the east, and Yangfang Hutong is not far to the south. There are neighborhood committees and police stations nearby. The environment is quite quiet, and safety is guaranteed.

In fact, during this period, the so-called Houhai Bar Street had not yet begun. The areas south of Houhai were quite quiet and not as noisy as in later generations.

In addition, in Cao Zhiqiang's memory, the courtyard houses here were not demolished on a large scale. Most of them retained their original shape, and the prices were extremely high, and there was even no market for them.

Therefore, buying a house here will definitely not make a loss.

Under the leadership of Aunt Chen from the local neighborhood committee, Cao Zhiqiang quickly visited the house and met the homeowner directly.

The landlord turned out to be a widow, her surname was Zheng, but she was a bit older, over sixty years old.

The old lady currently lives alone in this house because her children are not around.

Now that the old lady is old and lonely, she wants to sell the house and go to live with her children.

This situation is similar to the house Cao Zhiqiang bought at West Lake in Longtan, but I don’t know whether it is true or false.

Anyway, as a house seller, you have to come up with a good excuse. It doesn’t matter if the excuse is true or false, as long as the house is good.

As mentioned earlier, Beijing’s real estate market today is a buyer’s market.

To put it simply, as long as someone is willing to spend real money to buy a house, there will be many people who want to sell their house, especially the owners of old courtyard houses with outdated facilities.

Because houses are now dead money, and banknotes are really too big in terms of today’s purchasing power.

For most people, if you were asked to choose a house worth 10,000 yuan or a house worth 10,000 yuan, I think 99% of people would choose 10,000 yuan.

Nowadays, the so-called 10,000 yuan household means that you really have 10,000 yuan, not that you have a house worth 10,000 yuan.

In terms of real estate value, there are many households worth 10,000 yuan in Beijing. In this case, houses worth 10,000 yuan will not be so scarce.

But, having said that, Mrs. Zheng’s house is a lakeside house after all, with a relatively good view. In addition, it comes with all solid wood furniture and daily necessities, especially many porcelain ornaments passed down from the Qing Dynasty. It can almost be said that

It's a move-in ready package, so the price is a bit more expensive.

Finally, after some bargaining, the entire courtyard house with a construction area of ​​828 square meters, including the house and furniture, was sold for 35,000 yuan.

To be honest, the price of 35,000 yuan is really expensive in today's real estate market, but it is still much less than the 40,000 yuan that people asked for at the beginning.

As per the old rules, the 828 square meters here is only the actual indoor area. There is no so-called shared area, and it does not include the yard area. Those yard areas are all given away.

This is the rule when buying a house at this time. I have never heard that the yard will be charged separately. Unless you have a large house with a thousand square meters and a large garden, then the yard will be charged separately.

What really attracted Cao Zhiqiang, or the reason why this house was much higher than the market price, was that this courtyard house was sold with furniture.

Cao Zhiqiang has seen it all. Although the furniture here is old, the wood is very expensive. Although there is no huanghuali wood, there is a coffee table and matching seats made of golden nanmu, as well as a large bed, wardrobe and dressing table in the main room.

Wait, they are all made of small-leaf rosewood.

In other words, the main furniture here is either made of golden nanmu, small-leaf rosewood, or even purple rosewood boxes, all of which are high-quality products.

It can be said that the furniture here is actually not cheap. The reason why people charge high prices for houses is because of the cost of these furniture.

Not only the furniture, but also some porcelain vases and other ornaments were not wanted.

As for these porcelain ornaments, it is said that many of them are antiques from the Qing Dynasty. Even if they are not treasures nowadays, they are not ordinary commodities.

What? How did Cao Zhiqiang know?

Of course it was introduced by the owner of the house himself.

This also shows that the owner of this house does not really know anything and does not know that the furniture and ornaments in the home are not valuable, but he knows the origin of these furniture and porcelain and knows that these things are very valuable.

Yes, it may be expensive, but it may not be valuable.

The reason is very simple. In this period, let alone golden sandalwood and rosewood, even the rarer huanghuali wood has not yet reached a price boom, and the actual market price is very cheap.

Not to mention those Qing Dynasty porcelains that are not particularly famous. Regardless of authenticity, even if they are genuine, they are not worth anything at all.

The main reason is not that most people don't know the goods, but that these things cannot be sold at high prices now, or no one buys them.

No matter how good your product is, it must have a market, or in other words, someone is willing to pay the money to buy it from you. If no one buys it, it will be useless no matter how high the price you ask.

For example, many people have heard of huanghuali wood, but few people can actually distinguish it. Anyone who knows anything about it knows that it is a good thing.

But now, there are very few experts who can really tell the difference between huanghuali wood. There are too few genuine products and too many fake ones, causing everyone to stay away from huanghuali wood.

Secondly, there are really too few people who can really pay high prices to buy huanghuali wood.

To put it bluntly, these high-end timbers are now a buyer's market just like houses in the capital.

Think about it, in an era when the gap between rich and poor is not large, and the per capita monthly income is only about 40 yuan, people pay more attention to daily necessities, followed by clothing and household appliances.

As for luxury goods such as huanghuali and golden nanmu, nowadays, they are all playthings and dross. They are not popular at all and have no real market.

We have to wait until the people have money in their hands, especially people from Xiangjiang come in to buy more goods, and they want to buy more. There is a market for these things, these precious wood furniture, and those antiques and the like.

Only then did the price of gadgets rise again.
To be continued...