Chapter 1229: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1229: Newspaper Reporter Li Tunan

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Dashan took the five million from Du Xiaojuan, but instead of eliminating leverage as Du Xiaojuan intended, he joined Zhang Fei's house-flipping group.

Wang Dashan didn't tell Du Xiaojuan about this, because he knew that as soon as he told her, a quarrel would be unavoidable; since he knew telling her would definitely lead to a quarrel, he might as well not say anything directly.

He'd wait until he made money later, then tell her; by that time, she'd have nothing to say.

Zhang Fei took everyone's money and got to work quickly; through various channels and methods, he began purchasing self-built houses in Suishi Village.

He didn't buy houses that were generally intact and still residential in nature; instead, he purchased several dilapidated houses in one go.

But this was also to be expected, because before forming the group to flip urban renewal housing, Zhang Fei had explained to Wang Dashan and the others that landlords of still-livable houses generally wouldn't sell — keeping them to rent out could earn plenty — so if they wanted to buy, they could generally only target dilapidated houses with no residential attribute or with commercial-use attribute.

After buying these dilapidated houses, what came next was waiting.

Waiting for the demolition notice to arrive, waiting for demolition to begin, and waiting for government departments to allocate funds.

Zhang Fei said he had inside information: within half a year the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development would send notice, within a year demolition should start, and at most a year and a half, demolition compensation would be disbursed in batches.

Honestly speaking, this payback cycle, in the house-flipping industry, is actually not long at all; on the contrary, it counts as very short.

Compared to other hot-selling commercial housing with purchase and sale restrictions, which often take five years minimum before they can be sold, this year and a half truly doesn't count as anything!

So Wang Dashan was quite calm about this.

However, he wasn't completely ignoring Du Xiaojuan's advice either.

At least after joining the urban renewal house-flipping, he didn't go buy houses in other second- or third-tier cities anymore.

He only maintained his existing leverage, didn't continue increasing risk, and used part of the money on hand to repay a portion of his loans.

This counts as a partial compromise toward Du Xiaojuan.

But this compromise wasn't complete.

In his view, the part he retained was retaining his dignity.

And he also couldn't completely compromise.

Because the spare cash he had on hand was already impossible to fully cover his loans.

On top of that, he had to keep some money for cash flow.

But as long as no accident occurred, he should be able to hold out for a period of time.

Because the money he got from Wanjia Commodities and Shanhai Real Estate could barely cover all his loans.

It's just that this kind of life would make him feel extremely tight financially.

Wanting to do anything else was already impossible.

This was equivalent to locking down his future space; all his hopes could only be pinned on housing prices rising.

Even if he encountered other windfalls and opportunities, he'd have no capacity to participate.

Leaving aside Wang Dashan's side, let's return to Wang Xiaohua.

Wang Xiaohua returned to Tsinghua University and that same day told Counselor Gu Wenqing he was back.

The next day Gu Wenqing asked him out to eat at Zijinyuan Canteen.

Since school hadn't started yet, there weren't many students in the canteen — only twos and threes — and the environment was very leisurely.

Gu Wenqing brought the Tsinghua Campus Newspaper Office reporter along; it was a girl wearing glasses, bare-faced, not exactly pretty in appearance, but possessing an intellectual beauty.

Her name was Li Tunan; this name wasn't because her parents preferred boys and wanted a son, but because Zhuangzi's "Free and Easy Wandering" contains the line "Bearing the blue sky on his back, with nothing to obstruct him, only then can he now plan for the south."

"Tunan" originally means planning to fly south; later extended to mean lofty aspirations, extraordinary ambition, pursuing the goal of the high plateau.

Li Tunan's parents hoped their daughter would have grand ambitions, not be bound by trivial petty matters, so they carefully cultivated her from childhood, and she didn't disappoint their expectations, eventually successfully testing into Tsinghua University's Journalism Department.

Now only a sophomore, she was already one of the main writers in the campus newspaper office, responsible for interviewing many accomplished seniors, and even some scholarly big shots.

Today's interviewee Wang Xiaohua could be said to be the most achievement-less alumnus she had ever interviewed.

But she also knew this was also the most challenging interview.

Because other people's achievements are laid out on the table — like winning international awards, entrepreneurial success, etc. — those are all tangible and visible.

But the Wang Xiaohua before her was different; he had not a shred of achievement to date, and even in every exam, he didn't stand out in class.

Li Tunan thought that to dig out Wang Xiaohua's shining points would probably require racking her brains.

But when she actually came into contact with Wang Xiaohua, after a round of exchange, she discovered she had guessed wrong.

This ordinary-looking young man before her carried a maturity and steadiness far beyond his peers; having risen from poverty, the neither-servile-nor-arrogant temperament he exuded was far from something those who had always grown up in privileged environments possessed.

"Xiaohua, this is Newspaper Office reporter Li Tunan; for the next few days she'll follow you for the interview, you two communicate well."

"Senior Xiaohua, hello!" Li Tunan proactively shook hands.

Wang Xiaohua shook her hand: "Junior sister, hello! Whatever you want to ask, just ask; I'll definitely know everything and say everything."

However, Li Tunan didn't immediately lay out the interview questions like other reporters.

She smiled gently:

"Let's not interview for now; let's just make friends, chat casually. Also, you do whatever you need to do; I'll just follow and record beside you, won't disturb you doing anything."

Wang Xiaohua was stunned; Li Tunan's interview method made him feel surprised.

But he also knew Li Tunan wanted to record the most real him.

Only reality can excavate value.

Fake and not-down-to-earth interviews — that wasn't what Li Tunan wanted.

And to get reality, one must go deep into the details of the interviewee's life.

This is also why Li Tunan said she would only follow and record, not directly ask questions.

"Alright, but school hasn't started yet these few days, and I don't have anything to do either. If you follow me to record, I'm afraid the useful information you'll be able to record won't be all that much."

Wang Xiaohua spoke like this.

Li Tunan, however, said:

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, there's plenty of time right now."

So for the next three days, except for the evenings, Li Tunan kept following beside Wang Xiaohua.

No matter what Wang Xiaohua did, she would record it down.

The first thing Wang Xiaohua did upon returning to the School was contact Wan Zhiyuan, then return to Wan Zhiyuan's research team again, but he wasn't going to do scientific research; rather, he was responsible for helping Wan Zhiyuan Manage some administrative Affairs.

Additionally, he would also set aside time to read some Civil Service Exam books.

Although he had already Decided to return to his hometown to be a Poverty Alleviation Cadre, he didn't give up his Civil Service Exam studies because of it, because even a Poverty Alleviation Cadre needs to take an exam to be selected; it's not like you can just go there and get chosen.