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Chapter 10: Moving

At around nine o'clock the next morning after signing the contract, a young man in his twenties knocked on Li Xuechu's door.

"Is it Mr. Li?" The young man looked at Li Xuechu in surprise, but his good professionalism quickly put away his strange color and changed into a professional smile.

"Yes you are?"

"Oh, I am Zhang Chengcai, an employee of XX Real Estate Company. This is my work document." The young man hurriedly took out the document.

Li Xuechu didn't think so much, so he took a look at him and returned it.

"I want to rent a house. The residence is a little spacious and the surrounding environment is better. In addition, the transportation needs to be convenient." Li Xuechu directly made a request.

Zhang Chengcai smiled: "No problem. We have considered these requirements before. Now the company has three houses for Mr. Li to choose from. If Mr. Li is free now, why don't we go and have a look together?"

"All right."

When Li Xuechu got into the car, Zhang Chengcai handed him a piece of information, which was the general situation of the three houses. Li Xuechu didn't look at it carefully, but after a while, he saw the real thing. He only looked at the price and size: 2,000 yuan, four bedrooms and two living rooms, one thousand six, three bedrooms and two living rooms, one thousand two bedrooms and one living room. There is no pressure at this price, two or three days of royalties are enough.

Both of them were young people. After chatting for a few casual words, the atmosphere became lively, not as reserved as at the beginning. Zhang Chengcai was curious about this young man who was a few years younger than his younger brother, so he pretended to ask about Xiao Li's situation casually. Apart from the time travel, Li Xuechu couldn't tell anything else, so he told it to the truth. When he learned that Li Xuechu was actually a novelist, Zhang Chengcai was solemn.

"I have submitted manuscripts to the newspaper before, but unfortunately I have never replied." Zhang Chengcai looked at Li Xuechu who was so young that he was not very good at it, and shook his head with a wry smile, "I don't know which wastebasket those manuscripts are in now."

"If you are interested, just stick to it. Who can explain these things clearly? Maybe it will be adopted next time." Li Xuechu comforted.

"Forget it, some things cannot be forced." Zhang Chengcai was open-minded, "I am quite satisfied with my current job, so I don't need to change it. There are so many people in Xiangjiang who want to become famous, how many can do it? By the way, what's your novel called?"

"The little devil is the first to start the family. I just finished serializing it, and now I am publishing the great hero after drinking."

"You guys are the ones? I've been reading things recently, but I haven't read them in the previous episodes. I plan to read through the previous newspapers. This story is really interesting, but I didn't expect to come across the original work here." Zhang Chengcai added in his heart, "I'm still so young."

I talked and laughed, and it felt like I had arrived at the place soon. Li Xuechu started looking at the first one from a young age, and decided to see the second one at 1,600. There was no need to see one behind, just one person, and the house was too big and it felt empty.

Room 401, Building B, Yali Garden, No. 43 Radio Road, is Li Xuechu’s current address. Zhang Chengcai said that many of the residents nearby here are employees of TV stations or radio stations.

In addition to the two TV stations of the Radio Channel, there are also two radio stations, Xiangjiang Radio and Commercial Radio. In addition to the now closed Jiayi TV Station, there are just five, so they are nicknamed "Wutai Mountain" by the people of Xiangjiang River. However, there are only "Four Channels" now, and the name of Wutai Mountain is not worthy of its name.

The house was settled, and after paying a deposit of half a year, I asked the original landlord to return the original house. With Zhang Chengcai's enthusiastic help, I moved in with a few items. After that, I invited someone to have a meal, and Li Xuechu settled on the radio station. The simple furniture in the house was not needed, and I could move in with my bag. Zhang Chengcai said that these were all left by the original landlord and could be used for free. If it was damaged, it would be fine to compensate according to the price, and you could also buy it at a discount now. Zhang Chengcai handed Li Xuechu a list, which was all the prices of some furniture. Li Xuechu looked cheap, so he bought it directly. They were quite new and saved on the future because of these trivial matters.

Set up your own big and small items and cleaned the house well. Li Xuechu felt very satisfied with the spacious room. The surrounding environment is good, and there is a few steps away from the Lion Mountain Country Park, which has all the fitness and leisure equipment. The transportation is also convenient, and the room itself is good, with good lighting and ventilation. The only thing that looks bad is that there are too few things in the room. The room I originally lived in seems empty, but now the house is twice as big, it looks even more empty. But there is no hurry, and I feel that I have lost something and slowly added it.

If Li Xuechu hadn't known some things in the future, he really wanted to buy the house directly. In two years, during the Sino-British negotiations, with the political iron lady falling in the Great Hall of the People, the housing prices in Xiangjiang would fall like a collapsed stock market, and the Xiangjiang currency would also depreciate greatly. The iron lady fell in love with the British people, and the British currency, who were originally aggressive, also suffered a lot in Zhongnanhai. However, the Western government, who was used to small moves, had a good idea in all aspects. Starting from 1982, with the acquiescent or instigation of the British Hong Kong government, British banks such as HSBC and Standard Chartered began to print money significantly, resulting in a significant depreciation of the Xiangjiang currency, which encouraged the people of Xiangjiang to spread their anger to the north and put pressure on the government.

In just a few months, the Xiangjiang currency fell from the original five-yuan or more than one US dollar to more than nine yuan, and at its highest point it fell below ten yuan. In the end, it was determined that the depreciation would inevitably affect one's own interests, and the country's position was not shaken, so it began to clean up the mess. Finally, on October 15, 1983, the new policy was announced, and the fixed exchange rate of the Xiangjiang currency was linked to the US dollar at 7.8, which ended the farce. The game between the government ended here, but the people were cheated very badly. Many people's hard-earned wealth directly shrank by more than half within a year, and were eaten by British banks and international financial players.

Knowing the direction of history, perhaps speculating on currency speculation is a good choice? In the 1980s and 1990s, there were countless rich people who had risen and fallen, and many of them were among them who got rich overnight or went bankrupt overnight. Many rich banks did not leave much money, and felt afraid that the wealth would fly away if they invested less. Most of the money was converted into stocks and real estate, and there were countless bankruptcies. After all, the gambling nature of the people in Xiangjiang or Chinese was still too great. Unfortunately, not everyone is a god of gambling, but they were not gambling, and they had read the trump card in advance, right? Li Xuechu was not proficient in speculating on currency speculation, but it was still easy to avoid risks. According to this situation, the money to buy a house now and buy two houses, and it only takes less than two years to wait.

"Haha, you can buy a villa at that time." Li Xuechu was thinking about good things. Li Xuechu couldn't take care of national affairs and had no ability to take care of them. However, no matter how many small moves they did, they couldn't move anyway in the future. It was a foregone conclusion that they left.

As a later generation, Li Xuechu knew more clearly about the direction of historical development than others. Although there was a butterfly effect, at least he had to grow into an important rich man before he could influence the direction of history. Now he could only affect the surrounding area at most.

The revolution has not been successful yet, so comrades need to work hard!

I don't want to go to class anymore.

I used to take two buses, but now I only need to walk for five minutes, which is much more convenient.

There are not many people who like to learn music in Xiangjiang now. Although the record market has shown signs of prosperity, it will take several years to drive it to the basic level. Now there is no better music school. Moreover, it suddenly declines from prosperity twenty years later, and it is considered to be in the same way as Xiangjiang's film industry.

When we arrived at the location, it was a few minutes before class started. We greeted a few "peers" who were learning music together and found a seat to sit down. However, a few little kids posted it up again, which made Li Xuechu feel helpless.

"Chuzai, where are you from the mainland? I live next door to my house from Shanghai. I feel that my words are very different from you."

"The mainland is very big, and there are many accents in various dialects. Isn't it the same as Xiangjiang when speaking like Dongguang?"

"It's different, I can hear the accent as soon as I hear it."

Li Xuechu really doesn't know about this. It would be great to be able to speak Hong Kong dialect easily now. Accent and other advanced tutorials will be considered. I will talk about it later.

"Are mainlanders very poor? I can't afford to eat when I heard from my old beans?"

...

Li Xuechu knew that life in China was quite hard before the reform and opening up, but he didn't know what kind of situation it was. That era was too unfamiliar to him. But looking at the current situation in Hong Kong, there were also many people who were crowded with seven or eight people in a small house of more than ten square meters. The poor were also quite poor, and there were quite a lot of them. Sham Shui Po was still good. In Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon City Village and other things were even more poor, and the security in these two places was very chaotic. Especially Kowloon City Village, people died every few days. Li Xuechu has never been to this place until now, so he dared not go there.

In later generations, these places are definitely national-level poor counties, and they will be criticized by netizens if they are not evaluated.

In this way, mainlanders are still running over and over again without fear of death. It seems that the country is really hard now, or maybe they don’t know anything. I really think that Xiangjiang is full of gold?

Listening to the little kids talking about the various rumors about the mainland, Li Xuechu was speechless. If these were true, it would be the real "hell on earth". When one region does not understand another region, people always guess at the best or worst. Now they are just simply curious, and they don't know what it will look like in the future?
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