Chapter 349: A Truly Big Figure

August 6, 2023, Sunday, cloudy turning to thundershowers, 23~30°C.

Early in the morning, Tang Song got up early.

Putting on a set of sportswear, he started jogging along the not-so-clean road of the small town.

Due to the bad weather, the sky was not yet fully bright at this time, and there was basically no one on the road.

Only occasional electric vehicles and cars drove past him.

After completing his daily aerobic exercise, Tang Song took a simple cold shower and dived into the kitchen.

Boiled millet porridge, stir-fried two fresh seasonal vegetables, and spread a few egg pancakes.

When Xu Feng walked out of the bedroom, she saw the steaming breakfast on the table and her son smiling and calling her to eat.

Instantly moved to tears.

During the meal, Xu Feng took out her phone and started introducing the real estate projects for sale in the county town to Tang Song.

"The best and most popular residential area in our county town now is Fengzeyuan and Yunjingtai, which come with fine decoration. The environment is very good, like a park inside. Fengzeyuan is on the edge of the East Ring, next to the highway, it's convenient for you to come back and forth from Yancheng..."

Nowadays, when young people in the countryside get married, an apartment in the city is a must.

Neighbors and relatives often discuss houses.

Xu Feng also knew quite a bit about the real estate information in the county town, plus she checked a pile of information last night, so she spoke clearly and logically.

Houses in a small county town, especially high-end school district houses in such good locations, have a very good value preservation rate, which is also a kind of investment and not considered reckless spending.

After listening to his mother, Tang Song decisively said: "Fengzeyuan's location is relatively remote, and the supporting facilities are not complete enough. The house is mainly for you and Dad to live in, let's buy a livelier one. Yunjingtai is next to the hospital and shopping mall, and they are all Western-style houses, which is quite suitable."

"Then we will prioritize going to see Yunjingtai!" Xu Feng was full of expectations.

Before, when a relative got married, the new house was in Yunjingtai, and she had visited it several times.

The shock and envy at that time were still fresh in her memory.

After discussing which real estate project to go to, Tang Jianying said: "Our family has a relative working in a government unit, and he knows many leaders of developers. I heard he can get an internal discount price, much cheaper than outside, I'll make a call and ask."

After speaking, Tang Jianying picked up his phone and flipped through the address book, found a contact and dialed it.

The phone rang for a while and was finally answered.

Tang Jianying cleared his throat, pressed the receiver tightly against his ear, and laughed: "Hello, have you eaten? Maolin."

"How are you recently, is work going smoothly?"

"Isn't this our family planning to buy a house in the county town, want to ask you if you can get a discount price."

"That Yunjingtai residential area next to Hualian."

"Sigh, you know the situation of your sister-in-law and me, we can't afford such an expensive house. It's our Little Song, isn't he doing live-streaming e-commerce in Yancheng, earned some money, planning to buy a house here."

"Alright, alright, thank you for your hard work, then I'll wait for your news!"

Hanging up the phone, Tang Jianying breathed a sigh of relief and laughed at his son: "Your Uncle Maolin said it should be no problem, he'll contact it, and will call back in a while."

Then, Tang Jianying talked about the other party's situation.

He was the son of Tang Song's grandfather's brother, a few years younger than Tang Jianying, currently working in the County Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, and was also a leader, considered the most well-connected figure in their clan.

Even the relatives of Tang Song's grandfather's branch had a lot of face in the village.

During the New Year's ancestor worship, they were the ones presiding over the overall situation and were very sought after by people in the family.

It's like this in the countryside; when doing anything, the first thing they think of is using relationships.

And figures who master relationships, or figures who can provide direct benefits to others, often receive great respect.

Like Tang Song, who is purely rich, although they will envy, be jealous, and fawn, if they cannot bring them influence later, they only do superficial work.

Some people with dark minds will even make up bad things behind their backs.

…

After breakfast, the three set off from the small town to visit Tang Song's grandfather and grandmother living in the village.

The two old people lived at the north end of the village.

The house was the old family home, very dilapidated, and had already been there for thirty or forty years.

The wall skin was peeling off seriously, and the room was damp and stuffy, and the living environment was very bad.

Fortunately, his grandfather and grandmother were in good health, and there were more than a dozen old hens raised in the family, and they often went to the fields to work.

Seeing the brand-new Tang Song, the elegant and atmospheric Mercedes-Benz car, and a whole box of Moutai liquor and bags of gifts, the two old people pulled Tang Song and sighed for a long time.

They were all ordinary rural people, didn't have much big knowledge, seeing their grandson living so prosperously now, they were happy from the bottom of their hearts.

Tang Song's grandmother even lit a few sticks of incense and worshipped the gods in the family.

Said that she sincerely made wishes every New Year, and this time it finally responded.

Chatting with his grandfather and grandmother for a long time.

Tang Song said directly: "Dad, Mom, why don't we buy two houses, pick up grandfather and grandmother, and it's convenient for you to take care of them."

Xu Feng and Tang Jianying looked at each other, somewhat hesitant.

"No need, no need, why spend this money!" Grandfather waved his hand quickly: "We are used to living here, raising chickens, growing vegetables, chatting with old neighbors, how good!"

Grandmother also persuaded: "Yeah, Little Song, it's not easy for you to earn money, find a partner later, get married when you should."

Mainly they didn't want Tang Song to spend so much money, and Tang Jianying was not the only son in the family, there were two younger brothers below.

Letting Jianying's family help them buy a new house in the county town was unfair in the first place.

In case the other two sons have ideas about this house later, it would really be a mess.

They had seen many similar things over the years.

Tang Song pondered for a moment and said: "Then let's renovate this place properly, you are also old, for the sake of your health, you have to change to a better living environment."

Under his insistence, the matter was finally decided by his suggestion.

Grandmother held Tang Song's hand, tears falling down.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the three got into the car and left the old rural house.

Xu Feng patted her husband's arm and urged: "Jianying, you call Maolin again, ask him about the internal price, said he would reply in a while, it's been almost two hours."

Tang Jianying nodded and dialed again.

"Hello, Maolin."

"Not in a hurry, not in a hurry, isn't this just the weekend, the child is at home, thinking of going to see the house today, if it can be decided, it will be decided directly."

"Oh oh, is it okay? Alright, alright, alright! Then we'll go to the sales department now."

"By the way, Maolin, don't cook at home at noon, call Qiaoling, let's go to a restaurant to eat. Little Song brought Moutai liquor from Yancheng, let's drink a few cups at noon!"

"Alright, alright, you go ahead, we'll contact you when we arrive."

Hanging up the phone, Tang Jianying said: "Maolin let us go to the sales department to see the house and talk about the price first, and after we talk about it, he will come forward to talk to the developer's leaders, and it can be cheaper on our basis."

"Great!" Xu Feng beamed with joy: "Let's go see the house directly! Go, son, I'll navigate for you."

"Okay." Tang Song smiled and nodded, with his current net worth, he naturally didn't care much about this discount, but for his parents, being able to save some money through his own relationships would definitely make them happier.

Soon, the car turned a corner and drove toward the county town.

The small town where Tang Song's family lived was very close to the county town, with a straight-line distance of only 3 kilometers.

…

More than ten minutes later, the car arrived at the Yunjingtai sales department.

This was an independent two-story small building located in the northeast corner of the residential area, with luxurious and exquisite decoration.

A large lawn was laid outside, and there was a small-to-medium-sized garden landscape, which looked very high-end.

Walking into the bright and transparent glass revolving door, the smiling sales staff quickly greeted them.

Being able to be a salesperson in such a popular high-end real estate project, their quality and vision were naturally not bad.

Seeing Tang Song's clothing and temperament, the expression on their faces became even more vivid and enthusiastic.

Serving hot water, serving fruit plates.

After chatting simply about the house purchase needs, the three were led by the sales staff to walk around the residential area first, and then visited several houses with different layouts.

Good greening, low plot ratio, separation of people and vehicles, special electric vehicle sheds, complete supporting facilities, standardized property management...

Tang Jianying and Xu Feng, the couple, were more and more satisfied as they looked, feeling that this residential area was truly impeccable.

The only problem might be that the houses were not easy to choose.

The residential area had been handed over for half a year, and the best floors and building numbers had all been sold out, and the remaining ones all had some minor problems to a greater or lesser extent.

After discussing for a while and going to see the houses on the spot, the three finally picked one they were relatively satisfied with.

A 143-square-meter large three-bedroom, 3rd floor, not completely facing the street.

Comes with fine decoration, the price is 8400/m.

Now there happens to be a very strong promotional activity, and the total house price after the discount is 1.18 million.

If it's full payment, it can be discounted by another 30,000, which is 1.15 million.

Hearing this number, Xu Feng and Tang Jianying both clenched their fists.

1.15 million! They had never seen so much money in their lives.

If it were them buying for their son, it might be a little better.

Now that it was their son buying for them, their hearts were somewhat flustered and uneasy.

Xu Feng whispered: "Can it be discounted a bit more? We are sincerely wanting it, if it's suitable, we can decide quickly!"

"This... I have already given the biggest discount within my ability, really can't anymore." The salesperson hesitated for a while and said: "How about this, I'll apply to the supervisor to see if we can waive the property management fee for a few years."

"Fine! Then trouble you to ask."

"Alright, please wait a moment." The salesperson bowed politely and walked quickly toward the office.

Tang Jianying checked the time, "Why hasn't Maolin come yet, I'll make a call."

After speaking, he raised his phone and dialed Tang Maolin's phone, whispered a few words, and hung up.

"He said let us wait a few more minutes, he'll be here soon."

"That's good." Xu Feng breathed a sigh of relief and turned to whisper with Tang Song.

Imagining the scene of living here in the future.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, seeing that Tang Maolin still hadn't arrived.

Xu Feng was a bit anxious and directly picked up Tang Jianying's phone and dialed it. They had greeted him early in the morning, they had been at the sales office for an hour, and the other party just wouldn't show up.

The phone rang a few times and was hung up directly.

"Oh my, why don't you answer the phone, it's worrying me to death, what does this mean!" Xu Feng was not a gentle character, and her tone was a bit urgent.

Immediately after, a somewhat sharp middle-aged woman's voice came from the door: "Sister-in-law, your temper is really not small, we rushed over to help, why are we still being blamed?"

Tang Song frowned slightly, looked up, and saw a middle-aged man and woman walking toward this side.

The man was the uncle from the same clan, Tang Maolin, 40-something, dressed decently, with the style of a leader.

The woman was his wife, Li Qiaoling, looking shrewd, with a head full of permed curly hair.

They had seen each other many times in the village before.

Xu Feng smiled awkwardly, her face somewhat embarrassed: "Maolin, Qiaoling, you're here, isn't this just anxious from waiting, no other meaning."

Tang Jianying also followed to smooth things over: "Isn't it almost noon, thinking of inviting you to Huajing Grand Hotel to eat, afraid it would be too late and there would be no seats."

Li Qiaoling laughed: "You really don't need to worry about this, our Maolin knows the boss of Huajing, it's no problem to get a reserved private room."

"Heh, it's indeed my blind worry." Tang Jianying said enthusiastically: "Come, come, come, let's sit down and chat."

Listening to their chat, Tang Song felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart, feeling that these two relatives had a bit too much airs.

However, the other party was an elder of the clan after all, and his parents took the initiative to ask for help, so he couldn't say anything.

Took the initiative to greet: "Uncle Maolin, Aunt Qiaoling."

Noticing the young man sitting on the sofa, Tang Maolin raised his eyebrows, "Jianying, is this your son Tang Song? Compared to the New Year, the change is not small. Heard you started a business and earned money, really young and promising."

Hearing the other party praise his son, Tang Jianying revealed a big smile, "Yeah, was a bit fat before, now that I've lost weight, I'm also spirited."

Li Qiaoling saw the handsome young man sitting there, and her face revealed a look of surprise.

They returned to the village every New Year and had seen Tang Song many times, far from being this outstanding.

And combined with him wanting to buy a house in Yunjingtai, it showed that his economic conditions were also very good.

Absolutely a high-quality partner!

Her eyes lit up, and she asked with a smile: "Little Song, do you have a partner? Want Auntie to introduce one to you, it's my niece from the same clan, working in the system, looks especially watery."

Tang Song looked at the appearance of this aunt of his and shook his head directly: "No need, thank you for Aunt Qiaoling's kindness."

"Heh, alright then." Li Qiaoling curled her lips and said in a joking tone: "Little Song, you were a bit impolite just now, not standing up when you saw us coming. Being a boss, you can't forget our clan relatives."

After simple contact, she felt that this nephew's heart was a bit high, which made her, who was used to being respected and sought after by relatives, very uncomfortable.

Couldn't help but want to knock him down a peg or two.

Seeing Li Qiaoling say this about his son, Xu Feng's face looked a bit bad.

"Alright, alright, don't say these things, we're all our own people, no need to be too petty, let's do the business first." Tang Maolin took out his phone, beckoned to the salesperson standing beside him, found the contact and dialed it.

The phone rang for a long while before being answered.

Tang Maolin revealed an enthusiastic smile on his face, "Hello, Wang Zong, are you busy now?"

"Yeah, it's just the matter I mentioned to you on WeChat this morning."

"Alright, then trouble you."

Tang Maolin handed the phone to the male salesperson beside him, "Your Wang Zong's phone."

The salesperson quickly took it, his tone clear and loud: "Hello, Wang Zong, I'm Xiao Lin from the sales department."

"Yeah, yeah, understand."

"Alright, don't worry, I know."

Just said a few words simply, and the phone was hung up.

Salesperson Xiao Lin handed the phone back and laughed enthusiastically: "Our Wang Zong said that on the basis of all the previous discounts, it can be 100 yuan cheaper per square meter, which is equivalent to 15,000 less in total price, this price is already very suitable!"

Although the discount was smaller than imagined, Tang Jianying and Xu Feng still sincerely thanked him.

"Alright, we're all our own people, don't be so polite." Tang Maolin waved his hand, "The developer of Yunjingtai is Handing Group, this Wang Zong is from Yancheng, not a local, otherwise it could be cheaper."

Hearing the four words "Handing Group," Tang Song raised his eyebrows slightly; he really hadn't paid attention to the developer's name before.

Took out his phone and searched, and sure enough, he saw "Handing Real Estate Development Co., Ltd."

As a well-known local real estate developer in Yan Province, Handing has businesses all over the province, and Yunjingtai is one of them.

Xie Yue often finds him to chat about the short drama base recently, and the relationship between the two is quite good.

If it was just for this little discount on the house price, Tang Song didn't need to find him; after all, human favors are much more expensive than money.

However, he knew that many developers would reserve a few houses with the best lighting, best floors, and best layouts in the project.

Either reserved by senior company management, or reserved to open up relationships.

In order to let his parents live more comfortably, he didn't mind taking a detour.

Just at this moment, his shoulder was patted.

Tang Song looked up and saw Tang Maolin's somewhat serious face.

"Little Song, we're chatting here, don't just focus on playing with your phone."

He had been in the government unit for a long time, plus he was an elder in the family, so naturally there was an oppressive aura.

Actually, he had no malice toward Tang Song, this junior in the family; he just wanted to give a reminder and educate him a few words.

Tang Song nodded calmly, "I know, Uncle Maolin, it's just that I heard you say the developer is Handing Group, so I checked it."

"I have a friend I know in Handing Group; I'm not particularly satisfied with the house I chose now, so I'll make a call to see if he can help me change to a golden floor, one that doesn't face the street."

Tang Maolin paused, laughed: "Can't tell, Little Song, your connections are quite wide. However, Handing Group has such a big plate, each area has a corresponding person in charge; it's useless even if you know which department's leader."

"Yeah, there are many twists and turns in here." Li Qiaoling also joked.

Tang Song smiled and didn't say much, took out his phone and dialed Xie Yue's phone.

The phone rang twice and was quickly answered.

Exchanged greetings for a few words.

Tang Song stated his purpose directly.

"Yeah, it's Yunjingtai residential area in Jingxian, Quancheng."

"Alright, then I'll wait for your news, bye."

Hanging up the phone, Tang Song laughed at his parents: "Already told him, it should be no problem."

Hearing this, Xu Feng and Tang Jianying instantly revealed surprised smiles, "That's good, that's good!"

They were very satisfied with the residential area, just because they bought it relatively late, there was no choice.

This was something they would live in for decades, so naturally, the more satisfied, the better.

Tang Maolin's eyebrows jumped, his gaze flickering.

Tang Song's attitude and tone were clearly not joking.

He worked in the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, so naturally, he knew that such real estate projects had reserved houses.

But his position was not high; although he knew some middle-level leaders of developers, the relationship couldn't be considered intimate.

Even if he thickened his face to ask, people would definitely brush it off.

A few minutes passed.

"Ding-a-ling—" Tang Song's phone suddenly rang.

Answered the phone, "Hello, hello."

"Yeah, I am Tang Song."

"Alright, Wang Jingli, I know, bye."

Hearing the title "Wang Jingli," Tang Maolin's heart jumped, whispered: "Tang Song, who called you just now?"

"Sales manager Wang Yanbin."

"Uh... it's Wang Zong..." Tang Maolin curled his lips, looking at Tang Song with disbelief, "This..."

Wang Yanbin was not only the sales manager of Yunjingtai but also the regional person in charge of Handing Group in Jingxian.

Tang Song made a call, and could make Wang Yanbin take the initiative to contact him in a few minutes; the energy behind this was very terrifying.

Just at this moment, "dong dong dong—" hurried footsteps approached.

Immediately after, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes approached quickly.

Looking at them, somewhat nervously: "Which one is Mr. Tang Song?"

"Hello, it's me." Tang Song stood up with a smile.

"Hello, Mr. Tang, hello!" The middle-aged man bowed slightly: "I am the sales supervisor, Sun Qiwen. Our Wang Zong is on the way here, and will be at our sales department in a while. If it's convenient for you now, I'll take you to Building 8 to see first, there is a large four-bedroom on the 5th floor, 160 square meters, square layout, excellent lighting."

Hearing this, Tang Jianying and Xu Feng were pleasantly surprised, and quickly stood up from the sofa.

Building 8 was located in the central area of the residential area, with no obstruction in front, and was the building king of the residential area.

Before, salesperson Xiao Lin said when they went to the residential area that the houses there were sold out when they first opened.

"Alright, then trouble you, Supervisor Sun."

"Mr. Tang, you are too polite!" Sun Qiwen took a deep breath and asked tentatively: "There is one more thing, Zhao Zong from the Quancheng branch of the group wants to invite you to a meal, don't know if it's convenient for you?"

Tang Song raised his eyebrows, knowing it must have been arranged by Xie Yue.

Pondering for a moment, his tone was calm: "Tomorrow or the day after, let him contact me then."

"Alright, thank you, Mr. Tang!" Sun Qiwen nodded with a flushed face, following Tang Song's side cautiously.

Looking at this unbelievable scene in front of them, Tang Jianying and Xu Feng behind were stunned.

Why does it feel like their son's face is bigger than Maolin's? And it's much bigger!

This attitude can no longer be called friendly, it's simply fawning!

Tang Maolin "hissed," his face changing for a while.

Poked his wife Li Qiaoling, who was still dazed, and whispered: "Follow up! Say more nice things later!"

After speaking, he ran toward the door.

Zhao Zong from the Quancheng branch of Handing Group? Isn't that General Manager Zhao Mingbo?

He is considered a middle-to-high-level management in Handing Group, actually taking the initiative to invite Tang Song to dinner, and still so cautious.

Is their family about to produce a truly big figure? ===== CHAPTER 350 =====