Free Web NovelChapter 1186: Chapter 906: Little Star Studying Abroad – Extra 2
Lin Wan didn’t hesitate and immediately decided on this house, then asked Zhang Xinli to find someone to help with the renovation. From now on, Xingxing would live here permanently.
Lin Wan suggested that Little Star should take some time to learn driving. This way, traveling would be convenient in the future.
The house renovation was quick, without major repairs, only replacing the furniture, changing the floor, painting and carpeting anew.
Han Yi and Lin Wan watched as they finished organizing and helped Little Star with the new furniture, only leaving once they’d settled everything for their daughter. By this time, Little Star had been attending school for a few days.
Chen Haichang’s son, Xiao Wu’s school wasn’t far either, he often came back, and he and Little Star could chat easily. Sometimes Xiao Wu seemed particularly drawn to Little Star, since they’d met in childhood and were quite familiar, there was no awkwardness.
This made Lin Wan feel at ease. She packed her luggage and prepared to return.
"Mom and Dad, rest assured, I’ll take good care of myself here, you don’t need to worry about me. I’ll keep in touch with the family whenever I have some free time."
"Alright, if there’s anything you can’t decide on, go to your granduncle and grandaunt. Also, don’t wander around aimlessly when you have nothing to do, this place isn’t as safe as home."
"Got it, Dad."
Little Star saw her parents off and turned back happily to her own little home, living alone in such a big house is really comfortable!
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Lin Wan and Han Yi didn’t buy tickets to directly return to their place but instead to Z City. When they arrived there, everything was unfamiliar, and it took a long time to find the place Dad mentioned. It was in a coastal village.
Dad said this place was bought when the location was remote, very rundown, but now looking around, it has become bustling. The village has slowly been changing. Lin Wan knew this was quite a famous village because it’s beside the sea. The development later on was exceptionally good. However, it still wasn’t what it would become in the future.
Lin Wan used the key Dad gave her, it took quite a while to open the rusty door. Inside, weeds grew wildly and was inaccessible, so Han Yi went outside to buy a knife, and the two of them cut away the weeds in the yard until they could see the general outline. The place was large and rustic.
But since no one had lived here for a long time, it was quite moldy and damp. After opening the door and airing it out for a while, Lin Wan and Han Yi went to the bustling market to buy mats and light bedding for the night. Luckily it’s summer now, they could deal with it for a few nights.
They planned to stay here for a few days to observe the situation and assess whether this house was suitable for selling.
In the afternoon, they ate a simple meal outside and went to find the village’s head to help them reconnect the electricity. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
"Wow, this house hasn’t had anyone living in it for over twenty years, right? I remember after someone bought it here, it just stayed empty, no one lived in it. After all these years, I thought maybe something happened to the family, and there’s no one left, so this place became a nameless house, unclaimed. I was thinking if it remained vacant without anyone coming, I’d have to declare it public property. Lucky you came." The one reconnecting the electricity was an old man, quite elderly, yet still the head here.
"Uncle, we’re not locals, don’t often come here. It’s just that my dad kept thinking about this house and insisted we come check it out."
"Oh...so that person is your dad, eh? Gosh, it’s been long enough, huh. So he had relatives after all. Back then, whenever he came, it was always just him."
Lin Wan chuckled lightly, didn’t say much more.
Meanwhile, Han Yi asked this old man about the house prices here, quite unsatisfying, the property market hasn’t been good around these years.
"Well, selling a house here can be done, but it’s slow, and the prices will be pressed very low. Our village is by the sea, it’s large, look over there, too, there are several empty houses that haven’t been sold, been on the market for a long time." freeweɓnovel.cøm
"Eighty thousand dollars, eh." This house really is quite cheap.
"Uncle, what’s the deal with that coastal ruin at your corner?" Lin Wan, while at the seaside in the afternoon, thought the place had a great view and high ground.
"Back then, it was the villa of a wealthy family; later, they moved away, it must be decades ago, so it stayed empty, and now it’s become government property."
"Wow, that’s a nice spot, why would no one want it?"
"Want it? That place is a bit farther from the community area, isn’t it? Besides, in recent years, young kids growing up and needing houses, they all build next to the community for convenience in life, we have lots of space nowhere near used up."
".....Oh." Lin Wan smiled slightly at the thought, "Indeed, too remote, not likely anyone would buy. Even if someone wanted it, wouldn’t fetch a good price."
"Exactly, such a large place, not even for twenty thousand dollars."
Lin Wan felt secretly thrilled, if they fix it up and build a new house, plant a large field of lavender in the back, standing up from the top floor, surely it would be beautiful.
Han Yi seeing his wife’s gleaming eyes understood perfectly what she was up to; since she liked it, why not help her buy it too, given that house prices weren’t high now.
"That place is so barren, ten thousand likely still wouldn’t attract much interest."
Upon hearing this, the old man was taken aback, countering, "Ten thousand, there’d definitely be takers. Recently, an outsider spotted this spot, talked about setting up a small workshop here, offered fifteen thousand, I didn’t sell. We’re by the sea, those things he wanted to do would’ve produced a lot of trash, polluting the water. Couldn’t trade that small money for home destruction."
