Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 309 Who shows off who (please subscribe)

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

When Cao Kenan said he wanted to order whatever he wanted, Li Weidong simply took advantage of the trick and ordered a variety of signature dishes that made Cao Kenan feel heartbroken. There was also Master Li's best specialty, shrimps and black ginseng.

In fact, Li Weidong did not intend to really make Cao Kenan bleed. When ordering, he had already decided that he would pay the bill for this meal.

Li Weidong is not short of money for this meal. Even if he eats abalone, ginseng and wing belly, it is just a drop in the bucket for Li Weidong.

What's more, paying for dinners among relatives is also a way to gain face.

On the bus, Cao Kenan felt mixed emotions.

He originally planned to take the opportunity to eat and show off in front of his relatives from a poor place, but in the end it was Li Weidong who paid the bill. This was an obvious failure.

However, Cao Kenan was also very happy. After all, the money for this meal was equivalent to Cao Kenan's salary for two or three months. If he really spent this money, Cao Kenan would be really heartbroken.

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

The key reason why he was not late for the shrimp and black ginseng was because he was clever and pretended to be allergic to shrimp in order to save money, but in the end, he was clever and misunderstood.

If you calculate it this way, it means that the meat that was stuffed into your mouth was spit out by yourself. Not to mention Cao Kenan's feeling aggrieved!

However, on the surface, Cao Kenan still wanted to put on a harmonious look: "Oh, nephew, why did you settle the bill secretly? Didn't you agree that I would treat you? Look at what happened. I'm so embarrassed."

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Li Weidong chuckled: "We are all one family. Uncle Cao doesn't need to be polite to me. Whoever pays the bill is not the same!"

"That's not possible. You are guests from afar. I promised to do my best as a landlord, so how can I ask you to pay the bill?" Cao Kenan said.

"It's okay, I ordered all these dishes, and it's only natural for me to pay the bill." Li Weidong said.

Cao Kenan continued, "I told you in advance that I'll pay for this meal and you can just order whatever you want, but I didn't say whoever ordered the food will pay the bill! My nephew, tell me how much this meal cost in total.

, I’ll give you the money!”

"Uncle Cao, there's really no need. It's just a meal. There's no need to separate it so clearly." Li Weidong said.

"Eldest nephew, I also know that there is no need to divide a meal so clearly, but we agreed before eating that I will be the host! Let's do this, you tell me the number, and I will reimburse you!" Cao Kenan pretended to be arrogant.

said.

"Just tell me the amount, and you will reimburse me. It seems like you are giving me alms, as if you are asking me for money!"

Li Weidong felt a little unhappy, so he directly put his hand into his trouser pocket and continued:

"How can I just say the number casually? When I was checking out, I just asked for an invoice to see how much it was."

Seeing Li Weidong asking for the invoice, the smile on Cao Kenan's face instantly solidified.

"When I said I wanted to reimburse you, I was just being polite. Why did you take it seriously? You have to be polite to me again! That's how it is when ordering food. I asked you to order whatever you want, and you really ordered it casually. Now

When I said I would reimburse you, you really thought I was going to reimburse you! Why are you, such a nephew, so practical?"

Cao Kenan was a little panicked. If Li Weidong really gave him the invoice, then he really had to reimburse Li Weidong. After all, he had said this, so he couldn't go back on it!

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

"Where is the invoice? Remember to put it in your pocket! It must have been dropped!" Li Weidong chuckled and said, "Uncle Cao, look, I can't find this invoice, and I can't ask you to reimburse me. It seems that this meal

I have to pay for the meal!"

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

What if Li Weidong, his really eldest nephew, finds the invoice again, wouldn't he have to pay for it!

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

"You don't have much money? Why are you pretending to be rich? What you ordered are all the signatures of the old restaurant, as well as the shrimp and black ginseng cooked by Master Li himself. This meal is very valuable!" Cao Kenan thought to himself.

Cao Kenan originally wanted to show off his superiority in 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 off!

It’s really terrible to pretend that you are not doing it, but instead the other party is pretending to be that way!

"Aren't you just a self-employed person in a poor place? Even if you make some money, what is there to show off! This is Shanghai, and the little money you make is nothing in this city. When I arrived at my house,

I want you to 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 of people came to the community where Cao Kenan lived.

Li Weidong looked around and found that this was a newly built community. The environment looked good and the design was relatively novel. The first floor was all storage rooms, and residents started on the second floor, which would be a multi-story apartment type that would become more mainstream in the next few years.

From the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, the communities built at that time were basically those with a row of rooms. The residents on the first floor directly surrounded a piece of land outside the balcony. Even if it was their own yard, it was equivalent to what is now called a courtyard.

Floor plan with courtyard.

Later, this type of house type was gradually eliminated. By the mid-1990s, the mainstream housing was multi-story house type with six floors or less, which was very common in the old urban areas of various cities. As the number of high-rise residences increased, this type of multi-story house became more common.

It was sold as a "village" by the developer.

In 1991, this multi-story design was still very novel and could only be seen in big cities.

"This community looks quite good. It's located in the urban area and has all kinds of facilities. A retired engineer should be able to replace this kind of house!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

Cao Kenan, who was standing next to him, saw Li Weidong looking around constantly. He thought that Li Weidong had never seen the world and was overwhelmed by this community.

"A poor place like Qinghe should not have such a modern community! A bumpkin is a bumpkin, even if he has a few bad guys, he is still a bumpkin!" Cao Kenan found a sense of superiority in his heart again.

When everyone arrived at Cao Kenan's home, Cao Kenan naturally wanted to show off his new house, so he took everyone to visit room by room.

"The house type is good, with transparency from north to south. The distance between buildings in this community is also good. There are no tall buildings nearby to block the sun. The only drawback is that the balcony is a little small. But it is quite good to be able to design this type of house.

As expected of a big city, the design concept of the residence is advanced!" Li Weidong thought to himself.

Next to her, Aunt Su Qian said: "Brother, when I came here last time, your family was still crowded into a small house of more than ten square meters. It has only been two years since you upgraded to a bigger house. How big is the area of ​​this house?"

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"This is a house of one hundred square meters, which is equivalent to thirty square meters in your place!" Cao Kenan said with a proud look on his face.

"That is much bigger than the old house before." 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 the work unit. After all, at that time, unit allocation was still the main way for people to obtain housing.

Cao Yi introduced: "Girl, 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 did not know what commercial housing was, so he introduced: "Commercial housing is not built by units, but by real estate developers who buy land from the state and then build it.

After it’s built, sell it and make money.”

Cao Kenan said, looked at Li Dengke, and asked: "Brother-in-law, you don't have commercial housing in Qinghe, right?"

"There are self-built houses, but there really aren't so many buildings in the entire community that sell food out!" Li Dengke replied.

"It's such a poor place, it doesn't even have commercial housing. I guess in such a poor place, ordinary people can't afford commercial housing!"

Thinking of this, Cao Kenan said proudly: "Housing in our country is mainly allocated by work units. Even if commercial housing is built, ordinary people cannot afford it. The house my brother-in-law lives in now is also a house allocated by work units, right?"

"The unit used to be divided into separate houses, but later we moved to a self-built house." Li Dengke chuckled and continued, "The main thing is that there is a small yard where you can plant flowers and raise dogs."

"There is also a small courtyard, so that's pretty good. A house with a courtyard should be quite small, it should be a hundred square meters, right?" Cao Kenan asked.

"No, no! Not a hundred square meters..." Li Weidong next to him waved his hands hurriedly.

"The self-built house is less than 100 square meters, which is not as big as my house. It seems that the housing conditions of this family are average! As a self-employed person, you don't make much money!" Su Kenan instantly felt superior.

However, Li Weidong continued: "It's not that small!"

"Uh!" This supplementary explanation made Su Kenan choke and speechless.

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

"Two steps into the courtyard! More than 800 square meters! Is that a house where ordinary people live?" Cao Kenan was shocked. He could not imagine what a house of 800 square meters looked like.

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

In fact, Cao Kenan's housing quality is indeed worthy of showing off.

At that time, the family buildings of the units were generally about 80 square meters, and those that could reach 100 square meters were built for the leading cadres of the units.

What's more, this is the urban area of ​​Shanghai, where land is at a premium, and housing conditions are generally tight. A house of 100 square meters is definitely a scarce resource and can only be owned by high-income families.

The next second, Cao Kenan suddenly realized that the direction in which he was showing off seemed to be wrong.

"How big is the house size between me and people in such a poor place? Can the land in a poor place be the same as ours in Shanghai? The land in Qinghe is definitely not valuable. How expensive is the land in our Shanghai city! How big is the house compared with theirs?

, I will definitely suffer!

I should compare the price of the house. My house cost a total of 220,000 yuan. Including decoration, new furniture, and appliances, it cost more than 240,000 yuan. In a place like Qinghe, a house

It’s only 10,000 yuan, so what can his house of 800 square meters do? It’s only 100,000 yuan, which is not half as much as my house!”

Thinking of this, Cao Kenan felt much relieved.

"I have to find a way to bring the topic to housing prices so that I can continue to show off my house!"

Cao Kenan was thinking about how to bring the topic to house prices. Li Weidong happened to ask at this moment: "Uncle Cao, how much did you spend on this house? How much is it per square meter?"

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

The location of this community is good, the layout of the apartments is very reasonable, and the apartment is 100 square meters, which is not too small. It should be considered a high-quality market at the time. Li Weidong thought that this kind of high-quality market should be able to make engineers like Tang Renjie come out.

Even if Tang Renjie refuses to come in the end, it is not a loss to buy this kind of house. Just because of the location, if the house price rises in the future, it will cost at least 80,000 to 100,000 yuan per square meter. Then the house can be sold casually.

A near-multimillionaire!

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

Cao Kenan was worried about how to bring the topic to house prices, but he didn't expect Li Weidong to take the initiative to ask about house prices.

"Give me a pillow when you feel sleepy. You are such a great nephew of mine!" Cao Kenan was ecstatic and said impatiently;

"This house costs 2,200 yuan per square meter. Not counting decoration, furniture and appliances, the price of this suite is exactly 220,000 yuan!"

After Cao Kenan said these words in one breath, he suddenly felt a sense of elation and elation in his heart.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Kenan looked at everyone, ready to appreciate the shocked expressions on their faces.

However, what Cao Kenan didn't expect was that everyone present was very calm, as if they didn't take the number 220,000 to heart.

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

And Li Weidong is a senior rich man, and he usually talks about business worth tens of millions. For the Li family, two hundred thousand is just a drop in the bucket, so they are indifferent.

Cao Kenan glanced at the crowd and did not see any shock or even the slightest sign of surprise. He was instantly disappointed!

"What's going on? Two hundred and twenty thousand! People from a poor place like you will only earn a fraction in your lifetime! When you hear this number, shouldn't you be shocked? Why are you so calm? Are you not listening?

Is it clear?"

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

This time, Cao Kenan spelled out the words "two hundred and fifty thousand" very clearly.

However, Li Weidong's family remained indifferent.

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

Cao Kenan was once again disappointed.

After Li Weidong pondered for a moment, he asked: "Uncle Cao, the houses in this community should not be sold out yet, right?"

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

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

"It's just at the east gate of the community." Cao Kenan paused and said with a smile, "Why are you asking the sales office? Is it possible that you still want to buy a house?"

Li Weidong nodded seriously: "I want to go to the sales office and buy a few units if there are any discounts!"

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