The Goddess Shines on America

The atmosphere on the street was depressed.

The subway is still crowded, and the narrow carriages are full of passengers, which is inevitable even if it is not rush hour. But despite all the faces, not a single one was smiling. No one is hanging on the phone in high spirits, no one is listening happily to the faint, passing friends are not even in the mood to chat. But looking at those who have seats, almost all of them are staring at the newspaper and frowning.

The three of Alice dared not say a word along the way, as if their jokes would cause others to attack. Alice vowed that this scene could really happen on the tram. Of course Hannah listened to her sister and peeked at the newspapers of the middle-aged passengers, and she soon understood why.

The Japanese real estate market, which was booming a few months ago, suddenly plummeted.

Just last year, Mitsubishi Estate invested heavily in the acquisition of 14 buildings in Rockefeller Center, at a sky-high price of US$1.4 billion, second only to Vanda Plaza in Manhattan invested and built by Alice Wang. Unexpectedly, just today, starting with the total price of Tokyo real estate that can almost buy the entire United States, the entire Nikkei stock market began to fall.

This blow to the confidence of the general Japanese people can be imagined. Although Alice’s total number of visits to Japan in this life and her previous life is very limited, growing up in the era of the global village, she understands this scene better than many people. The contemporary Japanese themselves are even more profound.

Empathy is the best way to understand. As a Chinese in her previous life, Alice knew very well what people’s lifestyles and psychological conditions were like when the country’s economy was highly developed. Tomorrow’s life will be better. This sentence is simply common sense. , the achievements of the motherland can just prove this point.

From 2005 to 2015, China's total GDP has achieved a total increase of 3.7 times. Anyone who has experienced the changes in the living standards and ways of residents in these ten years can only understand.

The Japanese in the Showa era were like this.

In 1955, the total GDP of Japan was 9 trillion yen, and in 1965 it was 32 trillion yen, a net increase of more than three times. In 1975, this figure was 148 trillion, a net increase of nearly five times, and in 1985 it was 320 trillion, all of which increased by many times. The achievements are not without horror.

The buying, buying, and buying of Chinese people in the new century has exactly copied the behavior of Japan in the past few decades after the war.

Of course, based on the overall level of the world economy and the degree of industrialization, when Japan’s GDP reaches a certain height, the growth rate per unit time does drop a lot, but after all, the total amount is also here, and the global comprehensive influence will only become more profound. The strength of level and self-confidence has attracted worldwide attention.

It was under such circumstances that the stock market suddenly plummeted suddenly.

"Oh my god, it's so depressing!"

As soon as she stepped out of the Akihabara subway station, Sissy yelled, "I don't dare to breathe out!"

Hannah also frowned and said: "Mom said that the Japanese stock market has plummeted now, but is everyone like this? Look, this is Akihabara, don't you think there are too few pedestrians?"

Outside the Akihabara subway station at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, passers-by were in a hurry. Although there were a large number of people, it was difficult to give people the feeling of being crowded and lively. In front of the electronic store in the distance, promotional activities are being held, and the high school bunny girl is constantly attracting customers with her immature voice, but the customer retention rate is obviously inversely proportional to her figure and appearance, and the number is pitifully small.

"Prosperity must decline, and I don't even look at how high their housing prices have been in the past two years." Of course, Alice was not surprised at all, but now she was very happy, with a look of gloating: "Like us in the United States, the price of real estate has fluctuated for a century. It’s only about 10%. The Japanese don’t regard housing as a pure financial commodity, which is okay, but if they invest overseas on this basis, it will be very lively.”

Sissy agrees. Don't look at her quitting this job in the past few years, her father has worked in Wall Street to the executive level. With a father like this, his daughter's level is of course not bad.

So it was a coincidence.

The heyday of the Japanese economy was 1989, and it was also in this year that Emperor Showa was summoned by the Lord to leave, and the Heisei era began. Then came the 1990s, when the local real estate financial bubble burst, the so-called Showa man, Heisei dead house, this hat is really buckled.

But compared to the economic crisis that swept the Western world in the 1930s, Japan was lucky, at least not to the point where everyone had to receive alms with a lunch box. This is just the stagnation of economic growth after the property market returned to normal, not the overcapacity of many industries. Although many real estate speculators will inevitably jump off the building, that's it.

Of course, this can't be said outside, otherwise the three girls will definitely be besieged by a group of angry office workers in the tram.

In general, the work of the three women buying houses was completed very quickly. The house price has just plummeted, just when all the landlords are thinking about jumping off a few floors, and suddenly someone who is taken advantage of is planning to be a taker, so there is no reason not to hurry up and transfer the hot potato. Especially when the landlord saw that not only were the three buyers girls girls, but two of them were foreigners. Isn't that a typical case of being taken advantage of?

Alice is more aware of the rarity of this transaction than the landlord. Throughout the Heisei era, few families would aim to buy a house. Everyone has long been accustomed to renting a house. Of course, this will also increase population mobility, as described in many beautiful girl games and anime with love, because the father transfers work, the mysterious transfer student suddenly visits, in this season of cherry blossoms, a wonderful Love officially begins~

In the case of Barabara, the whole of Japan is such a large area in the final analysis, and it is also a country in the Eastern cultural circle. Its relocation is not in the same nature as that of Greater China.

In this way, a third-floor commercial and residential building in Akihabara was bought by Alice with a wave of her hand.

The price of Japanese and style houses is not calculated by square meter, but by the unit of tatami, 畳. One square is 1.62 square meters, and the residents of the country immediately have a clear understanding of the living room of twenty squares. This is the same as when buying a house in the United States, you know how big the house is when you talk about how many bedrooms there are.

"The living room and the reception area are actually more appropriate to call the activity room." Alice strolled in the first room at the entrance: "Typical Akihabara real estate is for those small-scale merchants, and the functional divisions are blurred. The comprehensive utilization rate is high, and you can even take a shower and go to the toilet, but there is no kitchen.”

"Probably eat instant noodles." Hannah said, it's not the first time she has visited Japan: "The instant noodles in Japan are really good, but the price is also high, but it's worth the money. right?"

This was Alice's impression after she had eaten the Chinese version, and Sissy immediately found a microwave oven from another room. It seemed that it would be a good choice to heat up a curry. Thinking about it, since the downstairs is Akihabara, I have the choice to live in this kind of place. If I still play the rhythm of buying vegetables and cooking every day at home, isn’t it a bit too hypocritical?

"Sa~ Minasan!" Alice put her hands on her hips and said, "Let's discuss what to do for a while, and leave the work to me. Right now, where are we going to play?"

Sissy was the first to agree, "Go to Ginza for a big meal, I want to have the most authentic sashimi feast!"

Hannah sat down on the sofa, and followed Sissy's words: "Then let's go shopping in Ginza. There is no suspense. But what time is it?"

It was a problem. Monica made an appointment remotely for renting a house, and the process of seeing a house and buying a house was extremely straightforward, so although the three of them arrived in Tokyo in the afternoon, everything was settled by now, and it was only eight o'clock in the evening. Of course, the regular meal time has passed, but since you are in Chiyoda District, the city that never sleeps, how can you go to bed early?

"Ginza, hey, Ginza..."

So, Hannah said to take a nap, and Alice strolled to Sissy's side, and began to hum in her ear.

"...What happened to Ginza?"

Qianqian gave her a disdainful look, is Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden?

Alice approached, and blew into Sissy's ear: "You know, Sissy, there are many lace bars in Ginza 1-chome and 3-chome~"

When Sissy heard this, her face turned pale with fright, and she quickly looked at Hannah who was nearby. Fortunately, she seemed to be really asleep at the moment.

"You bastard, are you afraid that she won't hear you!?"

"Hey, can she hear what I say in your ear?"

Sissy fell silent for a moment. If it was said that Alice had control over the voice, there was really no need to doubt it, unless she was selective and insane. But this kind of topic makes people feel guilty after all. No one knows the secret of the two of them except Maiya and Ashley who are similar. If it is leaked to Hannah without warning, the consequences will be unimaginable.

But as she immediately remembered, as long as Alice wanted to, the sound waves within the range could not be transmitted even an inch away.

She squinted at someone: "It's fine to accompany you to the bar, and it's easy for you to fool your age, but what about Hannah, can we just dump her?"

"The bar is open until the early hours of the morning, and we didn't say we're going tonight. We can wait for her to fall asleep and leave by ourselves. The subway in Tokyo is so convenient."

The lace-side bar is Japanese, and this exotic style is not generally interesting, and Sissy is really tempted. Of course, whoever goes there just to drink is a fool, and if I remember correctly, there seems to be a similar storefront in Kabukicho?

"Hey!" Alice's brain collapsed, and she called her god back: "What are you thinking about, did you think of something unhealthy? Harmony, oh harmony, don't say unhealthy things!"

Sissy burst into laughter, glanced at Alice, and then kissed her on the lips with a bang.

"Don't say it, I will do it!"