Chapter 170: Chapter 172: Buying a House in the City
What is she going to do in the future if she hates me now?
By the time Tang Yuxin got back home, Tang Zhinian was already there.
“How did the test go?”
Tang Zhinian ruffled his daughter’s hair. To him, his own daughter was always the best. Even though she wasn’t at the top academically, she never gave him any worries. During her primary school years, she always ranked among the top three in her class.
He didn’t demand that his daughter rank in a particular place, as long as she wasn’t too far behind.
“It was alright,” Tang Yuxin said, taking out her report card from her bag.
“I ranked fourth in the class,” she didn’t mention who came in fifth.
“My Xinxin is so smart,” Tang Zhinian remarked, rubbing his rough hands together. He took the report card from her. Although he was an uneducated farmer and didn’t understand what was written on it, he could recognize the numbers?
Every subject was over ninety points, all very evenly distributed, without a single score in the eighties.
They were no longer simply farming. The Tang brothers had set up a car repair stand at their front door and could earn a decent income every day. Coupled with the successful harvest from the fields in those years, the two brothers had some extra money at hand.
“I’m thinking of buying a house in the city,” Tang Zhinian said to his younger brother, “I’ve saved up some money. There’s no point in keeping it. Yuxin will be going to high school in the city in the future. Living in the dormitory isn’t ideal. It’s better to live in our own house.”
This was something he had been contemplating for a while. High-school students in the village now had to commute from home, which was difficult due to the distance from the school. Most students opted to live on campus. However, he didn’t feel comfortable with that arrangement but was even less comfortable with letting his daughter commute so far. As Yuxin was a girl, this made him worry even more.
After much consideration, he thought it would be best to buy a house in the city. Then, when living in the city, Yuxin would have a place to stay.
“I’ll buy one too, for my Sisi.”
Tang Zhinian was a devoted father, and so was Tang Zhijun. He always kept his daughter Sisi in mind. When he heard that his brother was thinking of buying a house in the city for Yuxin, he quickly calculated that with the money he had saved over the years, he could afford a place in the city for his daughter as well.
While eating dinner, Tang Yuxin listened to the adults’ conversation about buying a house. Her eyes lit up at the prospect. She had been pondering how to convince her father to buy a house in the city. Housing in the city was very cheap at that time. Twenty thousand could fetch you a big place, and if you managed to secure a good location, the return on investment could be hundreds to thousands of times.
Now that her father was already thinking about it without her having to bring it up, she felt relieved.
She had to admit that her father had a good eye for investment; it was just that in her previous life, he had been held back by an underachieving daughter and had never had a good life.
In the evening, Tang Zhinian discussed the matter with Tang Yuxin.
“What do you think, Xinxin? Do you want a house in the city? Your father only has you as a daughter, so what’s the use of having so much money? I will buy whatever you want. How about that?”