I'm back in 1990

Chapter 120: Grandma's Retirement Home

A week later, Wang Deyi gradually improved under the careful treatment of the doctors. However, the doctors said that if the old man wanted to get better treatment for his heart disease, he needed to have a stent surgery to place a stent in the blood vessel that was about to be blocked, so that the blood vessel could be cleared again. This way, he would not be troubled by heart disease for a considerable period of time.

However, the price is very high, with the entire treatment costing around 20,000 yuan, and appointments must be made six months in advance.

Huang Xiaochuan thought it was just 20,000 yuan, no big deal, so he agreed. Besides, after spending so much time together, the two had become close friends despite their age difference.

However, Wang Deyi, the person in question, resolutely refused to do it. In his words, "I'm an old man with one foot in the grave. There's no need for me to waste that money. If the King of Hell wants me to leave at midnight, I won't stay until dawn."

He also criticized Huang Xiaochuan, saying, "It would be better to donate this money to help students in remote areas than to waste it on me."

Alright! Anyway, this illness won't kill the old man for now, so let's wait and see. If he has to be hospitalized again someday, "Hmph!" then he won't have a choice. We can just get the doctor to sign the consent form, put him under anesthesia, and get the surgery done. That'll be all.

It's just an appointment! I can arrange it for him secretly. When he wants to thank me in the future, that's easy. I can just have him leave a will leaving all his property to me. No property? All books? Damn it, books aren't inheritance!

Anyway, all the medical expenses are eventually reimbursed by the school. I'm just paying for it out of my own pocket. I don't lose anything and I even get a good reputation. It's a win-win situation!

Wang Deyi was discharged from the hospital, and Huang Xiaochuan returned to his original daily routine.

They arranged a time to sign a sales contract with the Li family, then went to the housing management office to change the property ownership certificate. The Li family then used the money to buy a new house, agreeing to hand it over to the new owner, Huang Xiaochuan, within half a month.

However, the Li family couldn't wait to move out of this dilapidated house that they both loved and hated. Moreover, all the new houses they bought were completed properties. At that time, the real estate development units were state-owned, unlike the unscrupulous developers of later generations who sold properties off-plan.

Now, as soon as you pay the money, you can get the keys and just choose a date to move in.

Within five days, all three families had moved out, handing over their old house to Huang Xiaochuan.

After seeing off the Li family, Huang Xiaochuan stood in the courtyard, looking at the old garden villa in front of him. Now, this villa and this courtyard completely belonged to him.

The old house has the grandeur of an old house, with each floor having a ceiling height of nearly four meters and Roman columns inside. Although it looks so dilapidated, its inherent elegance and nobility are still faintly visible.

Garden villas were all built in the concession area at that time, so they were called the upper class by the people of Shanghai. Living here was once the dream of every Shanghainese. However, times have changed and the first generation of people who lived here have all retired from the stage of history.

Their descendants squandered their family fortune due to their own circumstances or social changes, regarding the old houses as a burden. Who would have thought that in the next thirty years, these old houses would be valued again? History has come full circle, and these houses have once again become the upper class in the minds of the new Shanghai residents.

So-called luxury residences like Tomson Riviera and COFCO One are nothing compared to these century-old detached garden villas.

Huang Xiaochuan looked through every room upstairs and downstairs. The wooden stairs and floors creaked underfoot, and the paint had been worn away so much that the original color of the wood was visible.

Sunlight streamed into the room through the original stained glass, creating a colorful and magical atmosphere.

However, the younger generation of the Li family were very dissatisfied with the house. Although it sounded good to say that they lived in a detached garden villa, it was just a facade. The house looked elegant on the outside, but the soundproofing and heat insulation inside were poor.

The young couple dared not make a sound when they wanted to be intimate at night, and they had to control their movements carefully, otherwise the rhythmic creaking sound would notify everyone in the house what they were doing, because their cousins, parents and elders lived on the left, right, upstairs and downstairs. Can you imagine how oppressive their life must be?

Although the Li family has moved away, they have left behind traces of their lives and a pile of junk. They took everything they could, leaving unwanted items and broken furniture scattered haphazardly in various rooms, making the place look chaotic.

This place is obviously uninhabitable, not to mention that the garden has been ruined and is unrecognizable. It needs to be restored and repaired by professionals. Huang Xiaochuan made a rough assessment and estimated that it would cost a lot of money, but it was not a problem for him at all.

The house was fully equipped with water, electricity, and gas, and they all worked perfectly while the Li family lived there. However, Huang Xiaochuan decided to replace all of these things, as it concerned his grandmother's quality of life and safety in her later years, and could not be taken lightly.

If the wiring is not upgraded, even air conditioning will not be able to be installed in the future. Moreover, Huang Xiaochuan plans to install heating in this house according to the standards of later generations, which will require the original water, electricity, and gas systems to be dismantled and reinstalled.

After the garden villa is renovated, my maternal grandmother and aunt will move in so they can enjoy their later years here. As for Old Huang and his elderly mother Zeng Lijuan, Huang Xiaochuan will make other arrangements, such as finding a suitable house for them or according to their own wishes.

After finalizing the purchase of the house with the Li brothers, Huang Xiaochuan made a special inquiry. Using his status as a student at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, he contacted the Department of Architecture at Tongji University. Through the introduction of a senior student from the Department of Architecture at Tongji University, he found some master craftsmen who specialize in restoring old villas. He made an appointment with them to conduct an on-site inspection after he received the house and to come up with a plan on how to repair the house as soon as possible.

So today is both the day to hand over the house to the Li family and the day to arrange an on-site inspection with the master craftsmen.

The foreman's surname was Kan, and he was almost seventy years old, but you couldn't tell from his appearance. His voice was as loud as a bell.

After he arrived, he led his men to carefully inspect the house inside and out, including the yard.

"Mr. Huang, restoring this house to its original state will be quite difficult! It depends on how much money you can afford. The original stained glass needs to be custom-made in France, and the toilet and bathtub inside also need to be ordered from abroad. The roof and facade will all need to be repaired. According to your requirements, all the interior walls and floors will be torn down and rebuilt. It's basically like rebuilding the house, except that its structural framework remains unchanged."

"And this courtyard, I'll draw a simple diagram for you based on your design, see if it's as you described."

The old master was indeed an old master; he skillfully sketched a simple diagram on a piece of white paper with a pencil, presenting the garden landscape to Huang Xiaochuan.

After seeing this, Huang Xiaochuan nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's it."

Then Huang Xiaochuan said to the old master, "Money is not a problem. Give me a list of what you want, and make sure you clearly indicate the place of origin. I will find a way to get it. I entrust you with all the materials that we can get domestically."

Huang Xiaochuan had already made a contingency plan. He could entrust the Singapore-based Jiadao Company to purchase these items on his behalf. Originally, Huang Xiaochuan had planned to buy a European and American air source heat pump system to install heating in the house.

Because the cold is unkind to someone as old as my grandmother, I remember that in my previous life my grandmother contracted pneumonia in winter and passed away. In this life, Huang Xiaochuan will do everything he can to make sure my grandmother lives a few more years in comfort.

My uncle and aunt are not unfilial, but they really don't understand this. They don't know that cold is the biggest enemy of the health of the elderly, and that the winters in Suzhou are very damp and cold.

Moreover, my uncle and aunt had lived in Jiangnan for most of their lives and had no idea that air source heat pumps existed. Now that I'm back, I should provide them with these things so they can enjoy them first.

After signing the contract and paying the deposit, the house renovation project began. From now on, Huang Xiaochuan would check on the progress from time to time. If there were any special needs, Master Kan could contact Huang Xiaochuan directly; his pager number had already been given to him.

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