Chapter 127: Easy to Hurt the Kidneys

Because Xu Heng was preparing to buy a second-hand house, after discussing this matter yesterday, he found a real estate agent to look at houses in the surrounding area.

There were not many residential complexes that met the requirements; some were newly built developments near the snack street, which were marketed as the best bachelor apartments for young people when they were built, and the layouts were basically small apartments with one bedroom and one living room or two bedrooms and one living room.

The rest were apartments further away, near Jiangning, which were rented out to workers for shared living, with slightly larger layouts, mainly three bedrooms and two living rooms or three bedrooms and one living room.

Adhering to the principle of being closer to the school, Xu Heng left the snack street for last and first took his girlfriend to look at houses near Jiangning.

The land price in Jiangning was about one-third cheaper than in the city center; for example, apartments near the snack street in the city center cost over six thousand per square meter, while houses here in Jiangning were less than four thousand.

Of course, there were cheaper ones, but those were near towns and villages and were not within the scope of Xu Heng's consideration.

After walking around Jiangning, Jiang Mengyuan was quite fond of a two-bedroom, two-living-room house; it was a wedding house prepared by a young couple, but the couple's parents wanted their future child to have a high-status household registration, so after much consideration, they decided to sell the house in Jinling and borrow some money from relatives to buy a house in Beijing to settle their household registration.

This house was eighty-nine square meters including common areas, and the renovations and furniture were all complete, tidy, and brand new.

The agent said the owner had bought the furniture and never even used it, and if they bought this house, they would sell it to them at a second-hand price, a package deal for four hundred and fifty thousand.

Jiang Mengyuan touched this and that, but in the end, she said forget it; it was too far from the school, and it wouldn't be convenient to go back and forth.

Xu Heng smiled and said, "If you're really afraid of the distance, then I'll just buy another car, and I'll drive to pick you up then."

However, even though he said that, Jiang Mengyuan still shook her head and said they should go take a look near the snack street.

There were many more choices for bachelor apartments around the snack street than in Jiangning.

Firstly, there were many new, unsold houses in newly built complexes, and secondly, people who bought houses in this area basically did so for the profit of renting to university students, and there were not a few who were eager to sell later due to poor capital turnover.

The agent for the new houses couldn't provide much reference, so Xu Heng and the others took a look under the guidance of the sales office lady themselves.

The bachelor apartments here were actually not as wonderful as imagined; the boss who built the houses didn't know if it was because of a lack of investment, which led to very small gaps between the buildings, making them look very crowded, and there were several buildings where the sunlight wouldn't shine into the rooms until noon.

In comparison, the layouts of the houses here were quite cute; they were the kind of stacked layouts, with the highest being three stories, and one could shuttle between the upper and lower levels along a spiral staircase; the floor area of each level was not large, but combined, they still had two bedrooms, two living rooms, and two bathrooms.

The sales lady introduced that the house price here was five thousand eight, with an area of 54.7 square meters; if paying in installments, it would be calculated at the original price, but if paid off in one go, they could get a discount, costing only three hundred thousand.

The house was in the outermost building, so there was no need to worry about the sunlight issue, but because it was simply renovated, it would still need to be re-renovated and furniture would need to be bought.

After considering it, Xu Heng and the others decided to look some more.

Jiang Mengyuan was the kind of lazy girl, plus she had social anxiety, so expecting her to find renovation workers and go to the market to buy furniture was impossible.

And Xu Heng had things to be busy with recently, so he couldn't divert his energy to the matter of house renovation.

Therefore, after touring the snack street developments, Xu Heng gave up on new houses and turned his attention to second-hand houses.

In a certain development behind the snack street that opened last year, there were already many retail investors selling off their units this year.

Jiang Mengyuan picked out a 49.9-square-meter bachelor apartment, one bedroom, one living room, one bathroom, and a relatively large kitchen.

The previous owner was a girl, and the house's decoration was full of girlishness.

The furniture and such were also quite complete; the refrigerator, air conditioner, washing machine, and microwave were all there, and it could be taken for thirty thousand when calculated.

It was already past four in the afternoon when they saw this house; after walking for a day, Jiang Mengyuan felt her ankles were a bit sore, and she said, "How about this house? It's quite nice."

Xu Heng was stunned and asked, "Have you thought it through? It's only one bedroom; the two of us will have to sleep in one bed at night."

"It's... it's fine, we're a couple anyway."

"Heh." Xu Heng chuckled, "You said that just now, don't regret it in a couple of days."

He himself had originally planned to buy a two-bedroom house, intending to live separately from the little girl to slowly deepen their relationship, but it turned out this girl was bold enough to want to sleep in the same bed as him right away.

Did she really take his Island Country little brother for a vegetarian?

The transfer procedures for the second-hand house couldn't be handled until Monday, but since they had already decided.

Xu Heng signed the contract with the owner and transferred the money to her.

Once the keys were in hand, it meant this house basically already belonged to him; the rest was just waiting until Monday to change the name on the property deed to his.

Xu Heng did not hypocritically say he would write both his and Jiang Mengyuan's names on the property deed at this time.

He knew that if Jiang Mengyuan really wanted a house, she could have as many of these apartment units as she wanted.

And why was the little girl willing to come out and live with him if not for her affection for him?

There was no need to use a house to bind Jiang Mengyuan like he did with Liu Yiyan.

After settling the house issue, upon returning to the dormitory that evening, Xu Heng began to pack his things.

"What's up, Old Xu? Where are you going to have fun?" Cheng Huaiyu asked curiously when he saw Xu Heng taking out his clothes to pack into his suitcase.

"I found a place outside, preparing to move out and live there." Xu Heng didn't hide it from them either.

"You aren't moving out to live with Junior Sister Jiang, are you?"

Xu Heng nodded.

"Damn! Old Xu, you're for real! Then if you and the junior sister are alone in one room, wouldn't that be..."

"Otherwise, why do you think I'm moving out?" Xu Heng smiled and asked back.

Hearing his implication, the few people in the dormitory were all a bit envious.

Especially Cheng Huaiyu, who suddenly remembered that at the beginning of this semester, Dan Yuyue had also suggested to him that she wanted to rent a house outside the school, and for the two of them to live off-campus.

At that time, he refused on the grounds that the expenses were too high.

At the time, Cheng Huaiyu felt that living off-campus meant having to wait on Dan Yuyue and being controlled by her, which wasn't as fun as playing games in the dormitory with Zhao Gaoyang and the others.

Now looking back, he was truly a fucking idiot!

If he had been more decisive back then, maybe they could have both reached home base, and it wouldn't have ended up as stiff as it was now.

"What a pity, another partner for our dormitory's late-night battles is gone," Cheng Huaiyu said regretfully.

"It's not like I'm living outside the school every single day; I'll still come back to stay occasionally."

"I get that; usually, a guy can't take doing that kind of thing every day," Sheng Bo revealed a meaningful smile, "Old Xu, be careful with moderation; at our age, it's easy to hurt the kidneys."