Chapter 774: There's Even More Explosive News; Do You Want to Hear It?

Fu Yan Cheng saw her happiness and said, "It's still early. Do you want to go over and take a look together?"

Liu Chuxue glanced at the watch on her wrist and said, "Alright then. Let's go see it and settle things sooner rather than later, so someone else doesn't snatch it up first."

Remembering something, she tilted her head and asked, "Does your family know about this?"

Fu Yan Cheng shook his head. "I haven't told my family."

Liu Chuxue nodded with a smile. "At least you have some brains."

After taking two buses, he said, "It's just ahead. If we really make it work, taking the bus out in the future will be convenient."

Liu Chuxue looked around and asked, "How far is this from your home?"

Fu Yan Cheng pointed in a direction. "Two streets from my home. Since the street committee arranged it uniformly before, most of this area consists of housing for employees' families from various factories, with a small number of private properties mixed in."

"So the house we're going to see is a private property?"

"Yes. It was passed down from their ancestors. They only have one son, who works in Suzhou. They are going there to join him. They don't feel safe leaving the courtyard empty, so they decided to sell it outright."

Liu Chuxue lowered her voice and said, "Can the title be transferred on this house? I don't want to just sign a piece of paper with no protection at all."

Fu Yan Cheng leaned closer to her. "The policy doesn't allow it, but a gift transfer is possible."

As he spoke, he winked at her.

Liu Chuxue understood; this was a case of policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.

Seeing that she understood, Fu Yan Cheng smiled and pointed to a red-painted gate not far ahead. "That's the courtyard."

Just as they were about to knock, the door opened from inside. "Oh, Comrade Fu, you've come?"

"Yes, I brought my fiancée to take a look."

"Come in quickly, come in quickly."

"Are you going out?"

"It's nothing, nothing. There wasn't anything important anyway; I was just planning to go sit with the neighbors."

The courtyard was small: three rooms in the main house and one room each in the east and west wings, but the wing rooms were quite large, equivalent to one and a half rooms in other people's houses.

Liu Chuxue really liked the house. "Auntie, can we go inside and take a look?"

The landlady was very enthusiastic. "Come, I'll show you."

Before entering the house, she specifically pointed to the toilet under the jujube tree. "See? This is the only toilet in the entire area. It was built especially by craftsmen we hired when my daughter-in-law came to our home; it took quite a bit of effort."

This was indeed an unexpected surprise, since most places here used public toilets.

After looking around, she truly liked it. After some back-and-forth negotiation, they agreed on a price, decided to go transfer the title the next morning, paid the deposit, and then the two of them left together.

The two did not rush to take the bus but walked together along the road toward the bus stop where they would need to transfer for the next leg.

Fu Yan Cheng coughed lightly. "I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

Fu Yan Cheng looked around and said in a low voice, "The matter of Yao Qidong has reached a conclusion: eight years in prison."

"Really? That fast?"

"Of course. I suspect the Xiao family might have intervened in this matter."

Liu Chuxue was thinking about something when she heard Fu Yan Cheng say, "There's even more explosive news. Do you want to hear it?"

"Stop playing coy and tell me quickly."

"Yao Qidong has been sentenced, but oddly enough, the Qi family announced at this critical moment that Qi Shufang and Yao Qidong are already engaged."

"It seems there's a lot of foul play here. I guess the Qi family has lifted a stone only to drop it on their own foot."

"My Xue'er is so smart. Do you want to guess why?"

"It's probably one of those few reasons: either Qi Shufang was being blackmailed, or the rest of the Qi family had something incriminating in Yao Qidong's hands. In any case, it absolutely cannot be voluntary."