Because there was a card game waiting for her, Ma Lan didn't wait for the meal to be finished, so she walked out directly with her bag on her back and immediately took a taxi to Xiyuan Villa, an older villa complex in Jinling.
One of her old friends lives in this villa area.
Twenty years ago, Xiyuan Villa was regarded as a better villa in Jinling, but after all, it has aged a long time, so it has gradually fallen into disrepair.
In the past, Ma Lan thought that Xiyuan Villa was already a standard luxury house, and her family might not be able to live in such a single-family villa in her lifetime.
But things are different now. When she thinks about being able to live in the best Tomson first-class villa in Jinling right away, Ma Lan looks down on this kind of Xiyuan villa.
The old poker player who lives here is named Chen Shuyi, who Ma Lan met several years ago.
Chen Shuyi's family was well off. Her husband made a lot of money in the early years, but then passed away due to an accident, leaving Chen Shuyi a large sum of money.
Chen Shuyi raised her children and after sending her children to develop abroad, she enjoyed playing mahjong every day.
Moreover, this Chen Shuyi is rich but has poor card skills. She always loses more than she wins when playing cards. Ma Lan always wins a little bit every time she plays cards with her.
So Ma Lan regarded Chen Shuyi as her God of Wealth. Whenever Chen Shuyi asked her to play cards, she would definitely come.
Ringing the doorbell of Chen Shuyi's house, the door opened quickly. A woman about the same age as Ma Lan greeted with a warm smile: "Sister Lan is here, come in quickly!"
This middle-aged woman is Chen Shuyi.
Ma Lan hurried forward to greet her, stepped through the door, and said with a smile: "Oh Shuyi, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long."
When she came to the living room, two other mahjong friends who often played cards with her were already sitting at the mahjong table waiting.
"Sister Lan, you are finally here!"
Seeing her arrival, another middle-aged woman said impatiently: "Sit down, sit down, let's do eight rounds to warm up our hands first!"
When Ma Lan and Chen Shuyi both got on the mahjong table, the game officially began.
While playing mahjong, Ma Lan said: "Shuyi, you have lived in this villa for a long time, right?"
After Chen Shuyi touched a card, she smiled slightly and replied: "I bought this house more than ten years ago, but it was mainly for investment. After my children went abroad, I have been living in a building in the city. The villa is too big
, it’s very scary to live alone.”
"Then have you ever thought about redecorating?" Ma Lan became interested and said: "Let me tell you, my daughter happens to run a decoration company, and she also cooperates with our Dihao Group in Jinling. Her quality is absolutely guaranteed.
If you want to renovate it, I can ask her to give you a friendly price, and by then, I will definitely decorate your villa as magnificent as the palace!"
"Sister Lan, thank you for your thoughtfulness." Chen Shuyi smiled slightly, then sighed and said, "However, I have already planned to sell this villa."
"Sell?" Ma Lan asked puzzledly: "Why do you want to sell it? You are not the one who is short of money. Your husband has left you seven or eight houses alone, and you have invested in so much real estate yourself.
, how great it would be if it were left here to appreciate in value!”
Chen Shuyi shook her head and said with a smile: "Actually, I will go to the United States in a while, and I have settled in the past, and I don't plan to come back."
Ma Lan asked in surprise: "Why do you plan to settle in the United States?"
Chen Shuyi nodded and said: "To tell you the truth, my son has never been back to the United States since he went to study in the United States. Now that he is married there and his daughter-in-law is pregnant, he has no plans to come back in the future. , so he wanted me to go live with him and help them take care of their children."
A woman at the card table blurted out: "Oh, Shuyi, you have so many houses in Jinling, are you ready to sell them all?"
Chen Shuyi said: "If we keep a flat in the city, if there is a chance in the future, the family can come back and spend a few days there."
Hearing this, Ma Lan couldn't help but feel a pang of regret in her heart.
She was not regretting that she was about to lose a poker friend with whom she got along, but she felt that if Chen Shuyi left immediately, it would be difficult for her to meet someone like her again who was poor at playing cards and enjoyed losing money every day.
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At this moment, at the door of Xiyuan Villa, Xiao Changqian and Qian Hongyan parked their car and waited for the appointed real estate agent at the door.
Xiao Changqian planned to find a suitable house and spend the ten million, so he contacted an agent and asked the agent to help him find a villa worth about ten million.
The average house price in Jinling is a little over 30,000 yuan, but villas are a bit more expensive. If you buy a new villa for 10 million yuan, there is basically no chance, so you can only buy this kind of old villa.
Qian Hongyan looked at the door of Xiyuan Villa and said with some dissatisfaction: "Chang Qian, isn't this villa area too old? Look at these houses, they look a little older than the old lady's house, or else Let’s not look at the room here.”
Xiao Changqian said: "There is no way. The large flat floor of Tomson's first-class product is good, but you are not willing to buy it."
Qian Hongyan said angrily: "That loser Ye Chen has a villa in Tomson Yipin. I don't want to stand guard for Xiao Changkun and Ma Lan's family in the future! I can't buy a flat floor in Tomson Yipin!"
Xiao Changqian said: "So, it is more cost-effective to buy an old villa like this. It is large enough and has a separate courtyard, so it is comfortable to live in. It doesn't matter if the house is old, just renovate it."
Saying that, Xiao Changqian added: "You have to consider our situation. Hai Long has no one, and Weiwei has no one. They have a room each, plus the two of us, there are three bedrooms. In case Hai Long gets married in the future He must live with us. When he has a child, he will have to give the child a room, right? There are only four rooms."
Xiao Changqian continued: "Mom will definitely have to live with us in the future, right? Then we will have to leave a room for her. This will make it five rooms, so a villa is more practical."
Qian Hongyan said angrily: "Why does your mother live with us? Why not live with Xiao Changkun?"
Xiao Changqian shrugged: "The old lady has severed ties with Xiao Changkun's family. Do you think Xiao Changkun will let her live there?"
Qian Hongyan said very dissatisfied: "Then you can't follow us. We have not benefited from the old lady! Now that the Xiao family is almost finished, there is no benefit! Let me tell you, let her go when the time comes. Send it to Xiao Changkun's house, it's his business whether he wants it or not, anyway, we don't care about the old lady!"
Xiao Changqian said: "Don't you know this? My mother has a life insurance policy that she has bought for more than 20 years. It is a financial management type. After her death, this life insurance can withdraw more than 6 million yuan. If you drive the old lady away, When we go to their house, after the old lady dies, these more than six million will belong to Xiao Changkun!"
"More than six million!?" Qian Hongyan's eyes lit up and she asked in surprise: "Is it really that much?"