After Rebirth, My Fiancé Helps Me Avenge the Wicked Scum

Chapter 393 Buying a House Encounters Top-grade Trouble (Part 1)
The next day, Ah Xin told Mengyu that he had found a few houses for sale.
Mengyu was delighted, “That was quick! Let’s go and take a look right away!”
They first arrived at the first place, which was located in the town center. It was an old building being sold along with its storefront.
The owner was a man in his forties, who wanted to sell the house to save his son.
His son got into a fight and injured someone else. The other party demanded fifteen thousand as compensation to not press charges against his son.
Where would they get the money? They had no choice but to sell off this ancestral property.
By selling the house and paying the compensation, they would still have five thousand left over to rent another place for their food business.
The house had a storefront of over fifty square meters on the ground floor. The owner had been using it to sell food, while the second and third floor, of similar size, were used for accommodation.
The total construction area was over one hundred and fifty square meters, and the asking price was fifteen thousand.
Fifteen thousand was already considered high; at this time, you could build three rural houses for just five to six hundred, and even a house in town was only slightly over one thousand.
Mengyu’s courtyard house in Beijing cost only thirty thousand.
Although there was a storefront and it was located in the town center, the house was a bit old, but the price was still acceptable.
However, her purpose in buying a house was for residential use, and this house was not very convenient for living. Moreover, if she planned to open a store in the future, it would be for selling antiques or collecting waste, which wouldn’t really fit well in a town setting.
Just then, a loud scolding voice was heard, “What are all of you doing here? Is this a place for you to come?”
Mengyu frowned; she didn’t want to deal with the Jiang family for the moment, yet here they were, even when buying a house.
Descending from upstairs, Mengyu saw a woman in her forties along with Madam Jiang and Jiang Huaiyu entering. Jiang Huaiyu was scolding Ah Xin.
Initially, Mengyu had bought new clothes for Ah Xin and the others, but they preferred to save them for the New Year and still wore their old, patched clothes.
Jiang Huaiyu mistook him for a beggar, and her usual haughty and belittling attitude immediately flared up into loud scolding.
Under normal circumstances, Ah Xin would ignore such remarks, but this time, this person was someone their Master wanted them to keep an eye on, his enemy, and naturally, Ah Xin’s enemy too.
“Why can’t I come here? This isn’t your house.”
“Not now, but it will be soon,” shouted Jiang Huaiyu, pointing at the door. “You better get out of here now.”
She complained to the woman leading the way, “Aunt Pi, you can tell this beggar can’t afford to buy the house just by looking at him, having him here annoys me.”
Fire ignited in Ah Xin’s eyes—calling him a beggar?
“If you don’t like looking at the house, just don’t look. We are here to buy a house, not to please you.” Mengyu walked down from upstairs and interjected.
Initially, she was still hesitating whether or not to buy this house, but seeing Jiang Huaiyu clearly wanting this house, in order to ensure Jiang Huaiyu couldn’t acquire it, she immediately told the male owner, “You’re asking fifteen thousand for this house, right? I’ll buy it!”
Upon seeing someone coming down from upstairs, Jiang Huaiyu turned around, and seeing that it was Mengyu, and hearing Mengyu say she would pay fifteen thousand for the house, she panicked.
Anxiously, she said to the woman beside her, “Aunt Pi, you clearly just said you would sell it to me for twelve thousand.”
A troubled expression appeared on Aunt Pi’s face.