Chapter 735 — The Same Price
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
Hearing Mother Tang say this, Manager Wang realized she clearly did not mind Boss Wu going to draw, so he nodded and agreed: "All right, three draws — two extra chances! Sir, you can go draw right now!"
"Xiaoli, you go," Bald Boss Wu said with an air of indifference, waving his hand.
Mother Tang had never met Lai Changshan and did not know what he did, but seeing him treat her with respect, she nodded in puzzlement: "Hello, you are...?"
"Auntie, I'm a friend of Mr. Lin's. He asked me to help you look into a house at a special price!" Lai Changshan said.
Tang Zhi glanced at Fatso Lai. Who was he putting on this act for? Just go ahead and fool my mother, why don't you? Tang Zhi was no fool either. She knew Wei Zhao was mindful of her pride and would not have Fatso Lai simply give her a house outright, but instead use this method of selling at a low price to give her family a helping hand!
Though Tang Zhi was moved, she also felt a little uncomfortable, as if Wei Zhao were conspiring with Fatso Lai to deceive people?
But then Tang Zhi thought of her mother's dreadful temperament, and immediately understood Wei Zhao's good intentions. If Fatso Lai had acted like Wei Zhao's underling, her mother probably would not have spent a single cent — she might even have demanded a house from Fatso Lai outright! And then what was Tang Zhi supposed to do if her mother asked for a house directly? How was she to handle that?
At this thought, Tang Zhi could not help but feel deeply grateful for what Wei Zhao had done.
"So that's how it is! You see, we'd finally set our hearts on a place, and we were even wondering whether we could get a discount, but then that man bought it out from under us by adding two hundred and fifty thousand. I was furious!" Seeing the friend Wei Zhao had brought along to help secure a discount, Mother Tang immediately poured out her complaints: "Do you have any other apartments similar to that layout? And ideally at a bit of a discount too..."
"Do we have any?" Fatty Lai glanced at Manager Wang and asked.
"Yes, yes!" Manager Wang gave a start. What sort of connection was this auntie, that she could get President Lai to speak on her behalf? He hurriedly flipped open the sales ledger, searched through it, and then said: "In the building right next to the one the auntie had her eye on, there's another block with the same layout — only it's thirty square meters bigger, and the price is one point two million..."
"What? Thirty square meters bigger than this one, and also one point two million?" Bald Boss Wu had overheard Manager Wang's call as well, and his eyes went wide as saucers as he blurted out the question. He had paid the same money and ended up with a smaller apartment — what kind of logic was that?
"Yes, the layout is identical to yours, but it's in the building next door!" The salesgirl nodded and said to Bald Boss Wu with a smile.
"Why didn't you say so earlier? Didn't you tell me before that this was the only one left?" At this point Bald Boss Wu could no longer be bothered about saving face or showing off. He had just squandered an extra two hundred and fifty thousand for nothing, while over there a place thirty square meters bigger than his, with the very same layout, cost only one point two million — didn't that make him a prize fool?
"In this building, in this unit, there really is only one apartment left with this layout!" The salesgirl nodded and said: "You had your eye on this building from the start, and you never said you wanted a different one!"