Chapter 34: Completely Stunned!

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Chapter 34: Utterly Stunned!

“Xiaofeng, where are you planning to buy a house?” Yang Ming asked as he drove out of Laid-Off Street.

“Let’s go to First-Class Gardens,” Lu Feng said.

“Mm.” Yang Ming nodded and focused on driving.

Chen Fen was astonished once again.

First-Class Gardens was a newly completed residential development in the county, with an excellent location. Its facilities, landscaping, and other amenities were the finest in the county.

Naturally, its prices were also the highest. She had heard that fully furnished units there cost twenty thousand yuan per square meter.

Before long, Yang Ming drove to the sales center of First-Class Gardens.

A house in a county town costing twenty thousand yuan per square meter was frighteningly expensive. Yet in Youcheng, homes were not lacking buyers; on the contrary, they were in great demand.

It was a peculiar phenomenon, a miracle born of a society where marriage was negotiated around home ownership.

Many parents spent their entire lives working hard so that they could buy their children a house when the time came for them to marry.

In many cases, parents even became one of the conditions determining whether their sons could find a wife and keep their love.

Otherwise, in a place like Youcheng, where the average wage was only four thousand yuan, how many young people of marriageable age could afford a house on their own?

They got out of the car.

Lu Feng took Yang Qingxue by the hand and led her into the sales center. The moment they entered, they were struck by the grandeur of the decor. After all, a development selling the most expensive homes in the entire county could hardly afford to look modest.

In a county town where the average wage was four thousand yuan, a price of twenty thousand yuan per square meter was truly outrageous. That was why First-Class Gardens had earned a reputation as Youcheng’s residential district for the wealthy.

Elsewhere in Youcheng, most families could still scrape together the money for homes priced at over ten thousand yuan per square meter.

But at twenty thousand yuan per square meter, even most families could not afford it no matter how tightly they tightened their belts.

When Lu Feng and the others entered, a saleswoman in a professional suit immediately came forward.

“Welcome. I’m Li Xin, one of the sales representatives. It’s a pleasure to serve you.”

Lu Feng got straight to the point. “Do you have any fully furnished homes in a minimalist style? My girlfriend likes that sort of design.”

A fully furnished home was one that had already been decorated, so the buyer did not need to renovate it personally. The fully furnished homes at First-Class Gardens were also highly regarded, and, most importantly, every unit had a different design style.

This was the first project in Youcheng undertaken by a real-estate company from the city. They intended to make it a model development, so they had clearly put considerable effort into it.

Many people claimed that fully furnished homes were full of hidden pitfalls: excessive formaldehyde, inferior materials, renovations that were a minefield, and so on.

What more people did not realize was that renovating a home themselves involved even more traps. Most of those accusations were spread by people in the renovation business. Otherwise, how could they profit both from their customers and from commissions paid by material suppliers?

Naturally, this was not an absolute truth. Different people had different opinions.

In any case, if something existed, there was usually a reason for it.

When Yang Qingxue heard Lu Feng’s words, she gazed at him happily.

She had only mentioned once that she liked minimalist design, yet he had remembered.

Hearing this, Li Xin immediately explained, “Sir, we only have one 120-square-meter unit left in the minimalist style. However, it has the best location of all.”

“Take us to see the actual unit,” Lu Feng said decisively.

“Of course, sir.” Li Xin’s face lit up.

Many people had come to view homes that day, but he was the first to ask so readily. She simply did not know whether he would actually complete the purchase.

After all, Youcheng was only a small county town with an average wage of four thousand yuan. A 120-square-meter home priced at twenty thousand yuan per square meter would cost 2.4 million yuan. For a couple to save that much would take twenty-five years. Even with a thirty-percent down payment, they would need roughly eight years.

And that was without spending a single cent on food or anything else. The burden of repayment would be even greater.

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Lu Feng and Yang Qingxue followed Li Xin into First-Class Gardens.

By now, Chen Fen had fallen completely silent.

She could see that Lu Feng was not joking. He really intended to buy a house.

Lin Jiajia had realized it as well, and the disbelief on her face grew stronger by the moment.

The minimalist fully furnished unit Li Xin had mentioned was on the eleventh floor.

It was indeed a pure example of minimalist design.

The decoration had clearly been done with great care, and the layout of the living room and bedrooms was pleasing to the eye.

After looking around, Lu Feng heard Yang Qingxue praise the place several times. He immediately turned to Li Xin and said, “Manager Li, I’ll take this house.”

Buying a home was like that. When people had no money, they had to examine every detail, and even after viewing countless properties, they might not find one that suited them. When they had money, however, they went to an upscale development and were far more likely to encounter a place they loved at first sight.

“Ah… Sir, you’ve decided to buy it?” Li Xin was overjoyed.

She had shown them around and was still considering how to tactfully remind them to pay the deposit. She had never expected him to be so decisive that she would not need to waste a single word.

To be honest, she wished she could have more customers like him.

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Before long, they returned to the sales center.

Li Xin respectfully invited everyone to sit down before asking, “Mr. Lu, will you be paying in full or taking out a mortgage? We can assist with mortgage applications through various banks.”

“I’ll pay in full,” Lu Feng replied.

“All right. Please wait a moment, Mr. Lu.” Li Xin was astonished. In a county town like Youcheng, there were truly very few people who could buy a home in First-Class Gardens outright.

The young man before her appeared to possess considerable wealth. She could not help glancing at Yang Qingxue.

Clearly, this girl was the luckiest woman in Youcheng.

Otherwise, a boyfriend like this would be impossible to find even with a lantern.

Li Xin quickly brought out the contract and handed it to Lu Feng.

Lu Feng read through it, then signed his name.

The house was officially settled.

Afterward, he paid by card.

Li Xin would handle the transfer of ownership and the rest of the paperwork. Since he had paid in full, Lu Feng only needed to visit the property bureau at the end to sign the documents and collect the deed.

Chen Fen opened and closed her mouth, wanting to say something, but she could not utter a word.

Lu Feng had truly exceeded all her expectations. He had paid cash for a car worth more than a million yuan, and now he had paid cash for a home worth more than two million.

How could anyone make money so quickly in a place like Youcheng?

She could not help feeling worried. After all, most ways of making money that quickly involved something suspicious.

Lin Jiajia, meanwhile, was overwhelmed by complicated emotions. She stood there in a daze, as if sleepwalking.

When she had first learned that her best friend had found a boyfriend like Lu Feng, she had earnestly tried to persuade her to reconsider. She simply did not want her friend to suffer.

But now she discovered that everything was completely different from what she had imagined. She even felt a little envious and jealous.

After leaving the sales center, Yang Qingxue could no longer restrain herself. She slipped her arm around Lu Feng’s and asked curiously, “Lu Feng, where did you get so much money?”

Her entire body seemed to relax. Her mother would surely no longer oppose her relationship with Lu Feng.

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Chen Fen and Lin Jiajia were also drawn to the question and became intensely curious.

Chen Fen in particular was not foolish. She knew how difficult it was to make money in this society. In a place like Youcheng, there was no business that could possibly earn so much money all at once.

She even suspected that Lu Feng might be involved in some illegal business. That was the source of her growing concern.

If that were true, then even if Lu Feng owned a car and a house, she would never allow her daughter to fall into a pit of fire.

Lu Feng smiled at Yang Qingxue and said, “I opened a teahouse called Clear Breeze Tea House. It’s doing quite well. I’ll take you there to have a look.”

At that moment, he was genuinely glad that he had bought the teahouse earlier. It was, after all, the perfect cover.

Yang Ming was still waiting outside.

After Lu Feng helped Yang Qingxue and the others into the car, he asked Yang Ming to drive to Clear Breeze Tea House.

But when they arrived outside the teahouse, Yang Qingxue and Lin Jiajia froze. They exchanged a foolish, stunned glance.

Yang Qingxue especially remembered the place.

Naturally, they remembered that this was the teahouse where such an enormous barrage of firecrackers had been set off before, drawing a huge crowd.

At the time, Jiajia had joked that the teahouse might belong to some local gangster. Yang Qingxue had even said that she would not want it if someone gave it to her.

Yet the owner of this teahouse was Lu Feng?

Lu Feng took Yang Qingxue by the hand and led her inside. He also said to Chen Fen, “Auntie, this is the teahouse I opened.”

The scene attracted the attention of the two tea attendants in the main hall.

Yang Qingxue, Chen Fen, and Lin Jiajia looked around the teahouse curiously.

It was immediately obvious that the place was elegant and luxurious. It was also enormous.

“Xiaolu, can this teahouse really earn that much money?” Chen Fen still sounded doubtful.

Before Lu Feng could answer, a middle-aged man in a finely tailored suit happened to enter from outside. The moment he stepped in, he asked, “Do you still have Clear Breeze Tea?”

One of the tea attendants immediately went up to serve him. “Sir, we still have Clear Breeze Tea. How many boxes would you like?”

“Give me ten boxes,” the middle-aged man replied at once.

“All right, sir. Please wait a moment.” The attendant excitedly took box after box of tea from the display cabinet beside her, her face almost splitting into a grin.

After all, that meant she would receive a commission of 7,500 yuan.

Once she had brought out the tea, she quickly said, “Sir, ten boxes of Clear Breeze Tea come to 75,000 yuan.”

“Mm. Have someone carry them to my car.” The middle-aged man nodded and took out his phone to scan the payment code. He was giving the tea to an important client, and now that the deal had been secured, he did not care about spending this amount of money.

The sight left Chen Fen, Yang Qingxue, and Lin Jiajia standing there in stunned silence.

Buying nearly eighty thousand yuan worth of tea in a single purchase was beyond anything they could imagine. They had also heard that the tea business was extraordinarily profitable, with enormous margins.

So how much money could Lu Feng earn from this one order?

Chen Fen felt even more foolish for having asked her question.

Ten boxes cost 75,000 yuan, meaning each box was worth 7,500 yuan.

That was more than her monthly salary.

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