Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

With Li Weidong's eyesight and experience, how could he not see that Cao Kenan was trying to show his superiority.

When Cao Kenan said that he wanted to order casually, Li Weidong simply took the plan and ordered all kinds of signature dishes that made Cao Kenan feel sore. And Master Li's most famous shrimp and black ginseng.

In fact, Li Weidong didn't plan to really make Cao Kenan bleed a lot. When ordering food, he had already decided that he would pay for the meal.

Li Weidong is not bad for this meal, even if he eats abalone and ginseng wings, it is only a drop in the bucket for Li Weidong.

What's more, for dinner parties between relatives, paying the bill is also a way to gain face.

On the bus, Cao Kenan had mixed feelings in his heart.

He originally planned to take the opportunity to eat and show off in front of relatives from poor places, but in the end it was Li Weidong who paid for it, which was obviously a failure.

However, Cao Kenan is also very fortunate. After all, the cost of this meal is on top of Cao Kenan's salary for two or three months. If he really pays for this money, Cao Kenan will be really hurt.

But when I think about it again, it's really a pity that I didn't eat the shrimp and big black ginseng made by Master Li.

The key reason why he didn't arrive late was because he pretended to be allergic to shrimp in order to save money by playing tricks, but it turned out that he was clever but was mistaken by cleverness.

If you count it like this, it means that the meat that was stuffed into his mouth was spit out by himself.

However, on the surface, Cao Kenan still had to put on a peaceful appearance: "Oh, eldest nephew, why did you settle the account secretly? Didn't you say I was a treat! Look at how this happened, I'm so embarrassed of."

Li Weidong laughed: "It's all a family, Uncle Cao doesn't need to be polite to me, isn't it the same for everyone who pays the bill!"

"That can't be done, you are guests from afar. I promised to do the best of the landlord's friendship, so how can I let you settle the bill!" Cao Kenan said.

"It's alright, I ordered all the dishes, and it's a matter of course for me to check out." Li Weidong said.

Cao Kenan went on to say: "I said it in advance, I'll invite you to this meal, you can order whatever you want, but I didn't say whoever ordered and who paid the bill! Big nephew, tell me how much this meal cost. , I'll give you the money!"

"Uncle Cao, really don't need it, it's just a meal, there's no need to divide it so clearly." Li Weidong said.

"Eldest nephew, I also know that there is no need to divide a meal so clearly, but you can say it before the meal, I will be the host! Let's do it, you can tell me the number, and I will reimburse you!" Cao Kenan pretended to be proud. said.

"Tell me the number, and you will reimburse me. It means that you are giving me alms, as if you are asking me for money!"

Li Weidong was a little unhappy, so he put his hand into his trouser pocket and said:

"How can I just say the number, when I checked out, I happened to ask for an invoice to see how much it was.

"

Seeing that Li Weidong was about to take out the invoice, the smile on Cao Kenan's face instantly solidified.

"When I said I wanted to reimburse you, I was just being polite, how could you take it seriously! You have to be polite to me again! When ordering food, that's it, let you order whatever you want, and you really order whatever you want. Now When I said I would reimburse you, you really thought I was going to reimburse you! You nephew, how can you be so real!"

Cao Kenan was a little flustered. If Li Weidong really gave him the invoice, he would really have to reimburse Li Weidong.

Li Weidong didn't actually take out the invoice. He just deliberately frightened Cao Kenan. Since the goal had been achieved, Li Weidong pretended that he couldn't find the invoice.

"Where's the invoice? Remember to put it in your pocket! It's probably lost!" Li Weidong smiled and said, "Uncle Cao, look, I can't find the invoice anymore, and I can't ask you to reimburse. It seems that this meal I have to invite you to eat!"

"That's so embarrassing!" Cao Kenan said immediately, this time he didn't dare to mention reimbursement.

If Li Weidong, the really big nephew, finds the invoice again, wouldn't he have to pay for it!

Li Weidong opened his mouth and said, "Uncle Cao, don't be polite to me, anyway, it's just a meal, and I don't have much money."

"Don't have a lot of money? Pretend to be a rich man! The ones you ordered are the signs of old restaurants, as well as the big black ginseng with shrimp cooked by Master Li himself. This meal is very valuable!" Cao Kenan thought to himself.

Cao Kenan originally wanted to show off the superiority of a big city, but now after listening to Li Weidong's words, he felt that Li Weidong was showing off, and he was being shown!

It's really bad to be pretended to be that thing, but to be pretended to be that thing by the other party!

"Isn't it a self-employed person in a poor place, even if you make a little money, what is there to show off! This is Shanghai City, the little money you earn is nothing in this city, and I will wait for my house in a while. Let you see the house I bought for more than 200,000 yuan, and I won't scare you to death!"

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The group came to the residential area where Cao Ke was difficult to live in.

Li Weidong looked around and found that this is a newly built community. The environment looks good and the design is relatively novel. The first floor is full of storage rooms, and the residents start from the second floor, which is the mainstream multi-storey apartment in the next few years.

From the end of the 1980s to the mid-1990s, the residential communities built at that time were basically the kind with a row of matching rooms. The residents on the first floor encircled a piece of land directly outside the balcony, even if it was their own yard, which is equivalent to the so-called one Floor with courtyard house type.

Later, this type of apartment was gradually phased out. By the mid-1990s, the mainstream residential buildings were multi-storey apartments with less than six floors, which were common in the old urban areas of various cities. With the increasing number of high-rise residential buildings, this kind of multi-storey residential buildings has been sold by developers as "bungalows".

In 1991, this multi-layer design was still very novel, and it was only seen in big cities.

"This community looks pretty good. The location is considered to be in the urban area, and all kinds of facilities are complete. Such a house should be able to be replaced by a retired engineer!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

Next to Cao Ke, Li Weidong kept looking around, thinking that Li Weidong had never seen the world, but was stunned by this community.

"There shouldn't be such a modern community in a poor place like Qinghe! A bumpkin is a bumpkin, even if there is a few stinky money, it's still a bumpkin!" Cao Kenan found a sense of superiority in his heart again.

When everyone came to Cao Kenan's house, Cao Kenan naturally wanted to show off his new house, so he took everyone to visit one room at a time.

"The apartment has a good layout, and the north-south is transparent. The distance between the buildings in this community is also acceptable. There are no tall buildings nearby to block the sunlight. The only disadvantage is that the balcony is a little smaller. But it is quite good to be able to design this type of apartment. As expected of a big city, the design concept of the residence is advanced!" Li Weidong thought secretly.

Next to her, aunt Su Qian said, "Brother, last time you came here, your family was still crowded in a small house of more than ten pings. After only two years of hard work, you changed to a bigger house. How big is this house? ?"

"This is a 100 square meter house, which is equivalent to 30 square meters in your place!" Cao Kenan said with a proud face.

"That's a lot bigger than the old house." Su Qian continued; "Now that the mainland is developing better and better, engineers like you can get such a good house."

Su Qian also thought that this house was also allocated by units. After all, at that time, unit distribution was still the most important way for ordinary people to obtain housing.

Cao Yi introduced: "Gu, this house is not divided, we bought it ourselves! This is a serious commercial house!"

Cao Kenan felt that Li Weidong's family came from a poor place and didn't know what commercial housing was, so he said, "Commercial housing is not built by units, but by real estate developers who bought land from the state and then built it. After it is built, it can be sold to make money.”

Cao Kenan said, looked at Li Dengke, and asked, "Brother-in-law, shouldn't you have a commercial house in Qinghe?"

"There are self-built houses. There are so many buildings in the entire community that sell out, but there are really no!" Li Dengke replied.

"It's really a poor place, and there is no commercial housing. It is estimated that in such a poor place, ordinary people can't afford commercial housing!"

Thinking of this, Cao Kenan said arrogantly: "Our domestic housing is mainly allocated by units. Even if commercial housing is built, ordinary people can't afford it. Brother-in-law is living now, is it also housing allocated by the unit?"

"The unit used to be divided, but later it was moved to a self-built house." Li Dengke smiled and continued; "The main thing is to have a small yard, where you can grow flowers and raise dogs."

"There's also a small courtyard. That's pretty good. A house with a courtyard should not be too small, should it be a hundred square meters?" Cao Kenan asked.

"No! No one hundred square meters..." Li Weidong, who was next to him, hurriedly waved his hand.

"The self-built house is less than 100 square meters, and it's not as big as my house. It seems that the family's housing conditions are average! This self-employed person doesn't make much money!" Su Kenan instantly felt a sense of superiority.

However, Li Weidong went on to say: "It's not that small!"

"Uh!" Su Ke, who was suddenly choked up, was speechless after the supplementary explanation.

Next to him, Zhou Yunsheng of course wanted to speak for his sister, so he said, "My sister lives in a two-story courtyard house, covering an area of ​​more than 800 square meters, which is bigger than our villa on the other side!"

"Two into the quadrangle! More than 800 square meters! Is that the house where the common people live!" Cao Kenan was shocked, he couldn't imagine what a house of 800 square meters would look like.

Originally wanted to show off his "100-square-meter mansion", but was rejected again, and Cao Kenan became depressed again.

In fact, with the housing level of Cao Kenan, it is indeed worth showing off.

At that time, the family building of the unit was generally about 80 square meters, and it could reach 100 square meters. It was built for the leading cadres of the unit.

What's more, this is the urban area of ​​Shanghai City, where an inch of land is expensive, and housing conditions are generally relatively tight. A house of 100 square meters is definitely a scarce resource, and it must be owned by high-income families.

The next second, Cao Keyan suddenly realized that the direction he was showing off seemed a bit wrong.

"What is the size of a house between me and people in such a poor place! Can the land in a poor place be the same as our Shanghai city! The land in Qinghe is definitely worthless, how expensive is the land in our Shanghai city! It is the size of a house compared to them. , I must be at a loss!

I should compare the price of the house. My house cost a full 220,000 yuan, plus more than 240,000 yuan for decoration, new furniture, and home appliances. In a place like Qinghe, a house is about 10,000 yuan, so what about his 800-square-meter house? That is 100,000 yuan, which is not as good as half of my house! "

Thinking of this, Cao Kenan felt a lot more at ease.

"Have to figure out a way to bring the conversation to the house price so I can keep showing off my house!"

Cao Kenan was thinking about how to bring the topic to the house price. Li Weidong just asked at this moment, "Uncle Cao, how much did you pay for this house, and how much per square meter?"

After Li Weidong heard that it was a commercial house, he immediately became interested in the house here.

The location of this community is good, the apartment type is also very reasonable, and a suite of 100 square meters is not small, it should be considered a high-quality market at that time. Li Weidong pondered that this high-quality market should be able to allow engineers like Tang Renjie to come out.

Even if Tang Renjie finally refused to come, it would not be a loss to buy this kind of house. For this location alone, the house price will rise in the future, and it will cost at least 80,000 to 100,000 yuan per square meter. At that time, if you sell the house casually, you will be a quasi-millionaire!

That's why Li Weidong asked about Cao Kenan's house price.

Cao Kenan was worried about how to bring the topic to housing prices, but Li Weidong took the initiative to ask about housing prices.

"I fell asleep and gave me a pillow, it's really my great nephew!" Cao Kenan was ecstatic in his heart, and then said impatiently;

"This house costs 2,200 yuan per square meter. This suite is exactly 220,000 yuan, excluding decoration, furniture and home appliances!"

Cao Kenan said these words in one breath, and suddenly there was a refreshing feeling of raising his eyebrows in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Ke looked at everyone, ready to admire their shocked expressions.

However, what Cao Ke could not have imagined was that everyone present was very calm, as if they did not take the number 220,000 to heart.

Zhou Yunsheng and his wife live on the other side, where the income level is much higher than that of the mainland. Even in a big city like Shanghai, they can't compare to others, so Zhou Yunsheng and his wife naturally have no idea about the number of 220,000.

And Li Weidong is a senior local tyrant. He usually talks about tens of millions of business. For the Li family, 200,000 is simply a drop in the bucket, so he is indifferent.

Cao Kenan's eyes swept across the crowd, but he didn't see any shock, not even the slightest bit of surprise, and was instantly disappointed!

"What's going on? 220,000! People from poor places like you will only earn a fraction in their lifetime! When you hear this number, shouldn't you be shocked? Why are you so calm? Didn't you hear it? Is it clear?"

Thinking of this, Cao Kenan quickly added: "With decoration, furniture and home appliances, it cost nearly 250,000!"

This time, Cao Kenan bit the words "250,000" very clearly.

However, Li Weidong's family remained indifferent.

For local tyrant families, there is no difference between 220,000 and 250,000!

Cao Kenan was disappointed once again.

After pondering for a moment, Li Weidong asked, "Uncle Cao, the houses in this community have not been sold, right?"

"That's natural. How can ordinary people afford a house of 220,000 yuan? I guess it will take three or five years to sell it all!" Cao Kenan once again emphasized "220,000 yuan".

Li Weidong continued to ask, "Where is the sales office?"

"It's at the east gate of the community." Cao Kenan paused and said with a smile, "What are you asking the sales office for? Do you still want to buy a house?"

Li Weidong nodded seriously: "I want to go to the sales office to have a look. If there is a discount, I will buy a few sets!"