Chapter 130 Smashing the House With the clue of Sun Jiacheng, Chu Zhongxin can take the opportunity to push the investigation forward. With this step, the task force can continue to exist. So, Ning Weidong came at a very timely moment today. There is no need to even implement the Sun Jiacheng line, it is enough to just hold this line high. At around eight o'clock in the evening, Ning Weidong came out of the restaurant of the guesthouse. The two of them shared a bottle of Fenjiu, about half a pound each. Considering Ning Weidong's alcohol tolerance, it was not a big deal. After saying goodbye, I rode my bike westward to Huayuan Village. Ning Weidong took the address given by Shen Sikui during the day and walked out of the old city to the west. There was no navigation these days, so if you couldn’t find a place you could only ask someone for directions. But at this time, there were not many people on the street, and Ning Weidong could only look at the road signs and find shops with lights on on the roadside.
It really took some effort to find the place. Ning Weidong stopped his bicycle, stood on one foot and looked at the door of the Overseas Chinese Apartment. There were large double iron doors painted green with a black lock the size of a palm hanging on them. There is a small door on the left that is big enough for a person carrying a bicycle to pass through. There was a gatehouse inside the gate with a light on. This place is quite special. There was someone watching at the door. When he saw Ning Weidong come in, he immediately shouted. Then a man in his fifties came out from the concierge, looked at him and asked, "Who are you looking for?" Ning Weidong smiled and gave the house number An Ning gave him: "Hello, comrade. I'm looking for Comrade An Ning. I'm her friend." The other party seemed to have an impression of An Ning. He looked at Ning Weidong carefully for a few times, as if he wanted to remember his appearance, and then took out a notebook and said, "Please register." Ning Weidong didn't have any objection. Nowadays, you need to register when you go to most units, so it's nothing special. I wrote down my name and unit in the notebook, asked about the specific building location, and rode my bike inside again. The area of this community is not too large, but the distance between buildings is large and the greenery is very good. There are four floors plus a basement. Most of the houses in the park have lights on. Unlike the incandescent lamps commonly used today, the lights here are all white fluorescent lamps. Ning Weidong came to the bottom of a building and looked up. According to the address on the note, An Ning lives on the third floor of a unit in this building. Ning Weidong climbed up the ladder, put his bicycle downstairs, and went through the unit door to the third floor. There is a house number on the entrance door, so you don't have to worry about making the wrong decision. Knock on the door. "Knock, knock, knock~" An Ning voice came from inside, asking "Who is it?"
"I~" Ning Weidong responded. There was the sound of high heels "tapping", and a few seconds later the door opened, revealing An Ning's face. Knowing that Ning Weidong was coming tonight, An Ning had obviously dressed up. She was wearing a dress that was very popular in Hong Kong at that time, and her hair was permed into big curls, looking quite fashionable. She also wore a diamond necklace around her neck that sparkled in the light. Ning Weidong was stunned for a moment. An Ning at this moment seemed like a different person from the one in the tube building, more delicate and more beautiful. Obviously, the changes that An Ning encountered during this period were greater than Ning Weidong had expected. "How about it? Am I beautiful?" An Ning met Ning Weidong's gaze, turned around confidently, and her skirt swayed slightly. Ning Weidong was generous with his praise: "Very beautiful, very pretty." As he walked into the door, he became more alert in his heart. As the saying goes, there is no good wine, and there is no good meeting. This woman, An Ning, has never been a simple person. Now she is trying the same thing on him again. She must be holding it in. When he came into the room, Ning Weidong asked, "Do you want to change into slippers?" An Ning pointed to the shoe-changing bench by the door and said, "It's specially prepared for you." Ning Weidong took a look and saw that it was a new pair of men's slippers. After he finished changing, An Ning turned around and walked inside, saying, "I'll show you around my new home." Ning Weidong looked around. The buildings here are very high and appear very spacious and bright. The spacious south-facing living room is furnished with a brand new leather sofa, and on the high and low cabinets opposite is a 25-inch color TV. There were no LCD TVs in this era, and the largest screen of a big-butt CRT TV was only 32 inches. Today's 25-inch color TV is definitely very expensive. Next to the TV is a floor-standing record player. Judging from the trademark, it should be an imported brand. Ning Weidong doesn't know much about it. On the other side of the TV, there was a new VCR, and next to it, there were more than 20 videotapes placed on a bookshelf... It must be said that An Ning is definitely a luxury in this era. After Ning Weidong took a quick look, An Ning said with a smile, "How is it? Is it okay?" Ning Weidong was pragmatic and sighed, "Not only is it okay, you have regained your status as a young lady?" An Ning smiled without answering, and took Ning Weidong to the restaurant and bathroom in the north. The restaurant is connected to liquefied gas, and the bathroom has direct hot water supply for showering. Further in are four bedrooms. Along a small corridor, the innermost is the master bedroom, which is very spacious and has a large European-style canopy bed with a thick American spring mattress. Ning Weidong followed him around and the two returned to the living room. An Ning went to the restaurant next door, opened the refrigerator and took out two bottles of Coca-Cola, raised her hand and gestured: "Ice or room temperature?"
Ning Weidong said: "Of course you have to drink iced Coke, otherwise it's no different from drinking Chinese medicine mixed with brown sugar." An Ning smiled sweetly: "Your description is quite appropriate. I find this foreigner's cola even worse than Beibingyang soda." As he spoke, he put the iced cola on the coffee table, took out a bottle opener from under the coffee table, opened a bottle and placed it in front of Ning Weidong, and asked, "What do you think of my house?" Ning Weidong leaned on the sofa, rubbed the mouth of the glass bottle with his hand and took a sip, saying: "Look at what you asked, what else can this house be like? Compared with this place, where I live now is like a doghouse. Congratulations, the clouds have finally cleared and the moon has appeared." An Ning showed a complicated expression, took a sip of Coke and said, "I guess so. It's been more than ten years... It's finally worth the wait." Ning Weidong's mood was equally complicated, because he understood better than anyone what would happen in the future. In the next few decades, in order to integrate into the Western-dominated international order, we will have to compromise and lower ourselves to a low level. Since modern times, the backbone that had finally straightened up has had to bend down. They are confident in worshipping foreign things, but are too shy to talk about love. Ning Weidong pursed his lips, no longer interested in playing coy, and went straight to the point: "Sister An, we are old acquaintances, so let's not beat around the bush. What do you want me to do today?" An Ning was stunned for a moment. She was very sensitive to Ning Weidong's mood change. It was fine just now, how come... She didn't quite understand. But since Ning Weidong came straight to the point, she couldn't hide it anymore, and said calmly: "I don't dare to take any advice from you. In fact, it's not my business, it's my cousin who came back from Hong Kong a while ago..." Ning Weidong listened and suddenly realized that it was no wonder that An Ning suddenly moved here from the tube building. It turned out that he had connected with overseas connections. Overseas Chinese Apartments claim to be commercial housing, but in fact they are only sold to the outside world. Without overseas connections, transactions cannot be made at all. As for the price, China has a commodity economy and foreign countries have a market economy, so there are differences in purchasing power. A price of less than 200 yuan per square meter is certainly unattainable given the domestic wage level, but it is quite cheap for foreign countries. Don’t forget that this is a property in the core urban area of Beijing! Ning Weidong narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You mean, your cousin from Hong Kong wants to get to know me?" An Ning nodded. Ning Weidong smiled meaningfully. He didn't think that a second-generation rich man far away in Hong Kong would know his name. Even if he knew, he would probably sneer at him and call him a bumpkin. Ning Weidong simply said, "Sister An, you are being a bit unreasonable. It is quite taboo to contact outsiders casually. You should understand that." An Ning said hurriedly, "Don't worry about this. They came here through normal trade channels this time and have undergone strict background checks. They are all patriotic businessmen from Southeast Asia. There is absolutely no mess." Ning Weidong chuckled. He only needed to listen to such assurances but should not take them seriously. Meeting Ning Weidong's half-smiley eyes, An Ning remained calm and stood up and said, "Come with me." Ning Weidong was a little confused and didn't know what this woman An Ning was up to. He got up and followed her to the door. An Ning didn't even change her shoes. She opened the door and went out to the door opposite. Ning Weidong was slightly surprised that she actually used the key to open the door, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. An Ning opened the door and went in, reaching out to turn on the light switch at the door.
Instantly, the fluorescent lights inside flickered a few times and lit up. Ning Weidong walked over. The layout of the room opposite was similar to the one An Ning lived in, but the decoration was more luxurious and looked very new. The leather sofa and TV were also the same model... Ning Weidong didn't go in. He stood at the door and glanced inside, then asked in a deep voice, "What does this mean?" An Ning said: "As long as you agree, this house will be given to you." In fact, when An Ning brought him here just now, he guessed the clue. I just didn’t expect An Ning to be so unskilled that he would just smash the house. Are they sure that he is short-sighted and has no vision? Ning Weidong chuckled and said, "What do you mean by give it to me? Sister An, don't think I don't know the right policy. I can't buy the house here. Even if you give it to me, I can only live in it, but I can't get the property rights." An Ning was slightly stunned. She didn't expect Ning Weidong to know all this. She has lived in Beijing for many years and knows the housing conditions there very well. Not to mention Ning Weidong, even she was shocked by the houses here when she first came here. You know, when An Ning was very young, she was a young lady who lived in a mansion. She also knew that when Ning Weidong came back from the countryside, he lived in a makeshift earthquake-proof shed and squeezed together with his nephew. Even with such a spacious and luxurious house in front of him, he was able to remain unmoved and keep a cool head. An Ning knew that she had miscalculated. She originally thought that as long as she smashed the house, Ning Weidong would definitely lose his composure. I couldn't help but pursed my lips. It was meaningless to bring up the house at this point. It is useless to emphasize that the house can be handled and details such as letting relatives hold the property on behalf of the owner are unnecessary. The greatest power of this house happened just now, when Ning Weidong was brought here and it was said to be a gift to him. Even this moment failed to impress Ning Weidong, so everything else was just superfluous. Neither of them spoke for a while. After a while, Ning Weidong took the initiative to break the deadlock and said, "Sister An, as the old saying goes, no reward without merit. You suddenly want to give me such a big house. To be honest, even if I want it, I dare not. Let's talk about something real. What does your cousin want from me?" An Ning smiled bitterly, thought for a moment and said, "I heard you're dating someone?" Ning Weidong's heart moved, and he instantly realized that An Ning's cousin had other intentions, so he asked, "He wants to get in touch with the Zhao family through me?" An Ning nodded and said, "He didn't tell me at first, he just said he wanted to get to know you..." Ning Weidong listened carefully and was half-believing and half-doubting what An Ning said. This woman has never been an easy person to deal with. An Ning continued, "At first I thought he wanted to find your brother through you, and then get in touch with your sister-in-law's family." Ning Weidong could tell that An Ning had done his homework and knew his family's situation very well.
An Ning continued, "I didn't expect that he would turn to the Zhao family in the end. Then I suddenly realized what was going on." "Want to find the Zhao family!" Ning Weidong was also a little surprised. In fact, he had the same idea as An Ning at the beginning. He felt that An Ning, his cousin, came back from Hong Kong hoping to establish connections with the mainland. But I didn’t expect that the other party was not looking for the Wang family but the Zhao family. Then he changed his mind again. Based on the situation of the Zhao family and the situation of this era, he already had a rough idea in his mind. He said in a deep voice: "Sister An, I dare not make the decision on this matter. Wait until I get home and ask and then give you an answer." An Ning breathed a sigh of relief. She was most afraid that Ning Weidong would refuse outright, so now that he said he would go home and ask, it was like leaving room for him. Ning Weidong then looked at his watch and said, "It's getting late. I won't stay any longer." An Ning said: "I'll take you there." Ning Weidong quickly waved his hand: "No, it's not convenient for you. You might sprain your ankle again." He pointed at the high heels on An Ning's feet. An Ning blushed. Wearing high heels at home was really too vain. Ning Weidong gestured goodbye and quickly walked down the stairs. When An Ning heard the footsteps fade away, she closed the door and went back to the house. She then went to the living room, opened the door, went to the balcony, and watched Ning Weidong ride his bicycle from above. It was windy at night, and her hair and skirt were blown up immediately. An Ning raised her hand and smoothed her hair until she could no longer see anyone, then she went back into the house and sat on the sofa. About ten minutes later, there was a knock on the door. An Ning got up and opened the door, letting in a young man wearing a light grey Zhongshan suit and black-framed glasses. The young man was about 35 or 36 years old, with a 3:7 hairstyle, giving people a gentle and refined impression, but he spoke in Mandarin with a heavy Cantonese accent: "How was the talk?" An Ning turned back to the living room, sat down and showed a helpless expression: "Not very good." The young man frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" An Ning said calmly, "I don't like the house across the street." (End of this chapter)
