Chapter 2071: Chapter 2072: The Old Lady Reborn at 70 Reforms Ingrate Children 103

Even though Li Juan was unwilling, she knew that Zhang Yu now was no longer the "poor person with no money" she used to think she was, so she had to butter her up.

She just hadn’t expected that after Zhang Yu took back the house they’d been living in, she would actually renovate it.

At first she didn’t take it seriously. After living there for so long, Li Juan really had a ton of complaints about that place.

"It’s only because we’ve got good tempers that we never said how lousy that house was, otherwise no one would live there at all, and she actually charged 15 in rent." Thinking of the rent they’d paid over the years, Li Juan just felt heartache.

"And your mom too, now the rent here has gone up to 25." Li Juan admitted that after they moved back to the old place, the lighting was better, the neighbors were better, really much better overall; at least they didn’t have to stay on guard all the time that stuff left outside would get casually taken.

It was just that the rent was really a bit too expensive; Li Juan was fuming inside. "Never seen parents this outrageous."

Originally Li Juan thought their family had already suffered enough, but then she went over to see what the house they’d lived in for years looked like after the renovation.

Looking at the place after the makeover, Li Juan was genuinely stunned: there was a kitchen, a bathroom, and even a loft built in.

It was already partitioned into three rooms; no matter how you looked at it, this little setup was really nice, way better than when they lived there.

Li Juan was truly unhappy. "Mom, you fixed this place up way too nicely."

"If I’d known you were going to renovate it this pretty, we wouldn’t have moved." Although she really didn’t like the neighbors there, just for the way this house looked after renovation, she could totally put up with them.

Zhang Yu smiled. "If your mom hadn’t moved out, why would I renovate the place?"

"Did you really think with 15 yuan rent you could live in a place this nice?" Some people really do have thick skin.

"I’m planning to rent this place for 50." Zhang Yu directly reported a rent price. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

What? Forty? Li Juan was dumbfounded, staring at Zhang Yu in disbelief; Wei Jiang and the others had the same disbelieving look.

"So expensive? Who would rent it?" Wei Jiang couldn’t help speaking up.

"Exactly." Wei He snapped out of it too. "For a place this expensive, you might as well live in a Tube-shaped Building."

At least that’s an apartment building; isn’t that better than here?

"A Tube-shaped Building is good, sure, but is this place really worse than that?"

"I installed a heating setup here." When the house was built back then, she’d put in a homemade heating system, like a warm air duct.

Although the effect wasn’t as good as central heating in a building, it was at least better than heating a kang. "And I ran tap water into the house, installed a meter, so you don’t have to fight the neighbors over the faucet."

"At the same price in a Tube-shaped Building, can you rent a place with three bedrooms?"

"And I even put in a small terrace, so you can sunbathe and dry clothes on it."

"Do Tube-shaped Buildings have that?"

"As for tenants, you don’t need to worry. I’ve already found one." Please, think about who she is—she’s Zhang Yu, how could she do anything she wasn’t sure about?

"This place is already rented out." Zhang Yu happily watched their incredulous faces.

Wei Jiang swallowed. The moment he saw a place like this, he’d been thinking how great it would be if their family could live here.

Then even when the kids went on blind dates, the girl coming to visit would be satisfied.

But who could’ve thought the rent for this place would be fifty? Wei Jiang immediately shook his head and killed that idea.

Ahhh—Li Juan had never imagined that the house she’d been complaining about all this time, after a bit of renovation, could actually rent for such a high price.

Li Juan really regretted it. If she’d known that after a bit of remodeling it could rent so high, why hadn’t she thought back then to sign a long-term lease and fix it up herself—wouldn’t the rent difference have gone straight into her pocket?

Just thinking about such a great opportunity slipping right past her made Li Juan so mad she could spit blood.

Wasn’t Wei He tempted? Of course he was more than tempted—he clearly could’ve been collecting rent too, and the result?

Wei Jiang and his wife were a bit regretful as well, but not too much, because they knew there was someone even more regretful than they were.

Zhang Yu swept her eyes over them, knowing exactly why they were stewing. "Feeling upset, are you? Feeling like you almost had such a good opportunity?"

"Let me tell you, some things really aren’t worth overthinking."

"You’re just thinking you could flip it and start collecting rent."

"But look at this renovation. I’m telling you, I put in three thousand." She calmly laid it out.

What? Zhang Yu’s words stunned everyone. "Mom, for this renovation you actually—you actually spent three thousand?"

My god. They’d just been jealous over that big chunk of rental income; now they weren’t jealous at all, instead they were wondering if Zhang Yu’s brain had gone bad—why would she spend that kind of money?

Zhang Yu was very satisfied with their shocked faces. "So, Li Juan, tell me, how could I possibly renovate it and rent it to you?"

"And if you’re jealous that I’ve got rental income, then work harder yourselves and try to buy a place. Of course, you can also wait in line for one."

"It’s just that the factory doesn’t seem to have any plans to build housing right now." Anyway, in the original host’s memory, the two Wei Family brothers never got assigned a welfare apartment by their work unit; Wei He only moved out after he started making money and bought a place.

She remembered that in the original host’s memory, this was about the time Wei He should’ve started doing small business, then gradually climbed up.

So how come up to now this guy still showed no signs of going into business? What the hell? Could it be the butterfly effect?

Forget it, no point thinking about it. If he doesn’t want to start a business, then he doesn’t; after all, once that kid makes money he won’t be filial to his parents anyway. In the end, the ones enjoying his money will be his wife and kids and the Li Family.

Since that’s the case, why worry about his future? Just thinking about it is annoying.

Buy a house? Feng Xia curled her lip. She wanted to say, is it that she doesn’t want to buy a house? She just doesn’t have the means.

She gave Wei Jiang’s flesh a hard twist. As the eldest son of the Wei Family, how had he ended up doing this badly?

"What’s your problem?" Wei Jiang was very unhappy. Did he think he was happy about this? Did he not want his parents to help him out a bit?

But the problem was, this so-called eldest son of theirs didn’t have any standing at all with the two old folks. "Oh right, Mom, you’ve already moved and we haven’t even been to see your place yet."

They’d originally thought that when the old couple moved, besides helping out, they could also go take a look at the new place.

They were really looking forward to how nice Zhang Yu’s new place would be decorated. If the rental house could be done up this nicely, they didn’t even dare imagine how nice the place they lived in themselves would look.

But who would’ve thought they’d pull a sneaky move and move in secret. Wei Jiang was really unhappy—if that wasn’t guarding against them, what else could it be?

Zhang Yu also knew it was impossible to never let Wei Jiang and his family come over. Since they’d brought it up, they might as well go have a look.