Liu Chen glanced at the suppressed smile on Hu Qian’s face, rolled his eyes, then turned his head and asked Ren Mo beside him,
“What do you want to eat?”
“I want a hamburger.”
The two of them asked and answered, completely ignoring Hu Qian who was standing beside them, and walked out.
Hu Qian was about to stop Liu Chen when she saw her two former best friends coming out of the elevator. She pursed her lips, then walked towards her friends. Anyway, if Liu Chen took the bus outside, her father would see her.
Liu Chen took Ren Mo and entered through the back door of KFC. They walked through a crowded area to the counter and ordered two takeout sets.
“I have money, Sister Chen. My mom gave me money to treat you to a meal!” Ren Mo said, pulling out two crumpled hundred-yuan bills from his pocket.
Liu Chen took the KFC takeout bag handed out by the cashier while leading Ren Mo out through the back door. On the way, he said,
“Since I’m your sister, it’s not your turn to pay when you eat out with me. Eat up!”
Liu Chen had never been a sister in either of her lives. Now that she had a god-brother, she was feeling novel. Moreover, due to the difference in psychological age, and although Ren Mo looked handsome on the outside, upon closer contact, it was discovered that he was a very naive person. Many times, Liu Chen even had the illusion of taking care of a child.
The two of them sat in the classroom and finished their hamburgers, Coke, and chicken wings. Liu Chen had even completely forgotten about Hu Qian’s words.
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Hu Xingfa sat in the car and lit a cigarette. Qianqian said that Liu Chen was with her boyfriend here. He didn’t want the child to resent him, so he intended to use the excuse of early romance affecting academics to stop this early romance.
After all, this child’s grades had always been mediocre since childhood. If he ruined his studies due to early romance and couldn’t get into college, he would be even more of a disappointment.
After thinking for a long time, Hu Xingfa had even planned how to start by scaring her, saying how disappointed he was, and then coaxing her, saying that Dad still loves you. However, as he sat there, Qianqian had already gotten into the car, but the unfilial daughter hadn’t shown up yet.
“Qianqian, are you sure you told your sister I was here?”
Hu Xingfa looked at Hu Qian in the passenger seat with suspicion. Hu Qian was also stunned when she heard this. When she first got in the car, she hadn’t seen Liu Chen. She thought her father had already scolded her and let her go!
“I did! I even pointed it out to her! Oh, right, she also told her boyfriend that they were going to eat KFC. Dad, are they on a date?”
Hu Qian asked with feigned innocence.
Hu Xingfa glared fiercely at Hu Qian,
“Knowing they were going to eat KFC, why didn’t you call me to catch them?! It’s been so long now, they’re probably gone!”
Hu Qian didn’t dare to speak further after being glared at and sat quietly, feeling very unhappy in her heart. If you have the ability, go yell at Liu Chen! What’s the point of yelling at me! Old man!
Seeing Qianqian’s obedient appearance, Hu Xingfa felt a little better and then drove them home.
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The next day at 3:30 AM,
Liu Chen opened her eyes and went out to wash up. She found the living room light was off. Looking towards the door by the light of the street outside, she saw her mother’s shoes were still at home.
“Mom! It’s 3:30 AM!”
After knocking on the door for a while, Liu Fang’s voice came vaguely,
“It’s Sunday today, the market is closed!”
After speaking, loud snores came from the room again.
Liu Chen had really forgotten that wholesale markets also closed. They closed for one day every Sunday, and also on holidays. However, in her previous life, the market was closed, but they, the sales staff, were not. They had to go to the farmers’ market to research product promotion.
She tried to go back to sleep but couldn’t sleep at all. She might as well take out the "Five Years of College Entrance Examination, Three Years of Simulation" she bought. However, when she bought it, the book was not in the bestseller section, which surprised Liu Chen a little. Well, she also gave her newly adopted god-brother Ren Mo a complete set. When she got off the car yesterday, Ren Mo’s face was still grumpy.
She picked up a pen and did everything she could. She did this until the moon went down and the sun came up.
Liu Fang woke up at dawn and opened her obedient daughter’s door. Seeing that she was actually doing homework, she was overjoyed.
Now that her career was gradually expanding, and Chenchen was also well-behaved and diligent, Liu Fang felt that her current life was like a dream.
“If this is a dream, I really hope I never wake up.”
After saying this, she quietly closed the door. Liu Fang turned to fry two hand-grabbed cakes and boiled a bag of Wanzai Wharf cabbage dumplings. For her own eating, she would definitely eat better, as it was all at wholesale prices anyway.
“Dinner! After eating, I’m going to your aunt’s house to accompany her to look at houses. Do you want to go with me?”
Look at houses?
“Yes, I want to go!”
The homework could be done later, but her aunt buying a house was a one-time thing!
After mother and daughter finished eating, they went out. Her aunt’s family currently lived in a house allocated by the school in the 1990s. It was ninety square meters. They paid extra money to buy the square footage themselves. It was quite spacious to live in now, especially since there was no concept of building area and usable area back then. Ninety square meters was a solid usable area.
“It’s fine for us to live here, but Xiaofeng’s tone sounds like he’s in a relationship. I happen to have 400,000 yuan, so I might as well use it to buy a house to avoid being coveted by others.”
Aunt Liu Fen explained her plan while sitting in the passenger seat, holding a stack of promotional materials and asking Liu Fang which one to go to first.
“I’ll do it! I’ll guide!” Liu Chen said, reaching out to take the thick stack of new development promotional leaflets. After reading them, she realized that these residential areas were currently new developments. However, for someone like Liu Chen who was from more than ten years later, she could pick out the ones that would develop the best and appreciate the most in ten years.
It could be seen that her aunt had prepared, but most of the promotional leaflets she held were for new developments within the Second Ring Road of the city center, and even fewer were for the Third Ring Road. After all, in the eyes of the people of C City at that time, anything beyond the Third Ring Road was not considered C City anymore.
However, in the next dozen years, C City developed rapidly. Coupled with resource tilting, the southern part of the city, with the addition of quality school districts and wide street planning, emerged strongly, directly surpassing the city center in housing prices.
“Let’s go see these ones!” Liu Chen picked out three promotional leaflets and handed them forward.
Liu Fang glanced at them and immediately felt a headache: “These are all outside the Third Ring Road. Chenchen, don’t mess around!”
Aunt, however, waved cheerfully and said,
“Alright, since Chenchen said to go to these places, let’s go. I’ve collected the flyers for these more remote developments too. I was thinking that our mother is getting old now, and she doesn’t like climbing stairs or going up and down. These places are a bit remote, but they have elevators. The money to buy one set in the city can buy two sets in the suburbs. One set can be kept for Xiaofeng as a wedding house, and another set for me and Old Xie to live with Mom after I retire in a few years.”
Hearing this plan, Liu Chen secretly affirmed that her aunt’s plan was indeed excellent. She smiled broadly and teased Liu Fang,
“Mom, why don’t we buy one too? Then you and Aunt can stroll in the community after you retire, and you can also take care of Grandma!”