Chapter 53 Chapter fifteen

On the third day after moving from a luxurious villa to a small cheap hotel, Di Li was a little impatient—three days had passed, and no one had called to inquire about buying a house. After Gray got off work at noon, Di Li hurried forward and asked, "How is it? Has anyone contacted you?" Gray shook his head: "If someone wants to buy a house, the real estate transaction center will notify me immediately, or ask the buyer to call me directly and contact me." Di Li sighed, and sat down with a frown: "What's the matter? Could it be that such a big villa only sells for one million yuan, and would anyone think it's too expensive?"

"You can't say that, Dilly." Gray said, "One million is not a small amount. Even if someone thinks the price is reasonable and wants to buy it, they have to pay so much." Di Li put her hand on her forehead, with a sad face on her face: "So, we can't sell this house as soon as possible. Besides, I don't know how long we will stay in this small hotel?" "Don't worry, Dilly. After all, it's only two or three days, so we have to be patient. Selling a house is no small thing..." While talking, Gray's cell phone rang. He and Di Li exchanged glances, then quickly picked up the phone: "Hello, who is it?"

After listening to the other party say a few words, Gray's face revealed a look of excitement. He tried his best to control his emotions and said calmly, "Well, okay, when will we meet... what, now?" Gray looked at his watch, it was almost twelve noon now. "Okay then." Gray said, "Since you are so anxious to see the house, we will meet you in that villa in twenty minutes, and I will open the door ahead of time and wait for you at home. I think, you know the house The place... um, ok, bye." After hanging up the phone, Di Li asked impatiently, "Are you planning to buy a house?"

Gray nodded energetically: "It seems that he is very interested in our villa—and he sounds like a rich man—maybe he will buy the house very readily!" "That's great, Gray!" Dilly shouted happily, "Then you go!" "Honey, wish me success." Gray leaned down and kissed Di Li on the forehead, then turned and went out. Twenty minutes later, Gray saw the man who was about to buy a house in the living room of the villa. "Hello, my name is Shake." The man offered his right hand. "Hi, I'm Gray." Gray shook hands with him and said, "Please sit down."

Xia Ke was in his thirties, tall and thin, his eyes seemed to see nothing, and he seemed to miss nothing.He didn't sit down, but paced around the house, observing everything in the room. "Then, Mr. Shaker, let me show you around the house first." Gray raised his hand and said, "This house has a total of 300 square meters upstairs and downstairs, a living room, a dining room, and five rooms..." It took about ten minutes, and under Gray's leadership, Shaker looked through every room—except, of course, the storage room. Finally, they sat back on the sofa in the living room.

Shaker fell down on the leather sofa, turned his narrow back, and took a comfortable posture, sitting horizontally, with one elbow resting on the round armrest, crossing his legs—his casual posture had to be Let Gray have an illusion - he is already the owner of this house. "How is it, Mr. Shaker?" Gray asked. "As far as the house is concerned, I am very satisfied." Shaker replied honestly. "That's good." Gray smiled. Shake stretched his neck forward: "What we are going to talk about now is about the price of the house." "I think you've heard through the real estate exchange that the house is selling for a million dollars—furniture included."

Shake shook his head and said, "No, I can't pay that much money." Gray asked a little unhappy: "Then how much do you think this suite is worth?" Xia Ke pointed to his knees with his finger: "Up to eight hundred thousand." "Eight hundred thousand?" Gray said in surprise, "you can only buy an ordinary, medium-sized commercial house at this price. Mr. Shaker, I have to remind you - this is a large luxury villa. To be honest, if it wasn't If I am in a hurry to use the money, I may not be willing to sell it even if you offer 1.5 million."

Shaker was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly said abruptly, "Mr. Gray, I'm not a fool." Gray frowned: "What do you mean by that?" Xia Ke cleared his throat and said, "Well, let's open the skylight and speak honestly. If your house is in normal condition, the value of this house is certainly far more than 800,000. I understand that. But, in this situation I'm afraid its value will be greatly reduced." Gray looked at him in confusion: "What's the situation now? What do you mean? What's the situation now?" Shaker stared into Gray's eyes: "I heard that this house is a bit haunted-some visions often appear, right?"

Gray gasped, but he tried his best to remain calm, and pretended to be angry and said, "Which silly man-made rumor is this? It's pure nonsense!" Xia Ke shrugged and said, "I don't think it's a rumor. Otherwise, why did you sell this house at a low price of one million, but no one showed any interest in the transaction center for three consecutive days?" Gray suddenly felt extremely embarrassed. He said, "Why did you buy this house if you believed in the rumors that it was haunted?" "Because I'm an atheist," Shaker said, "I bought this house to prove that I'm not afraid of these so-called ghosts."

Gray lowered his head and remained silent—this kind of situation had never occurred to him before he set off here. After a while, he raised his head and asked, "Who did you hear that this place is haunted?" "There is no impenetrable wall in the world," Xia Ke said with a mocking tone, "Sometimes, the more we try to hide something, the more it will leak out." After speaking, he looked at Gray meaningfully——Gray didn't know how to understand his words. "Now let's go back to the question just now," Xia Ke said, "800,000, what do you think of this price?"

Gray shook his head and said, "Too little, I can't accept it." "Mr. Gray, you have to think about it carefully. I am probably the only one willing to buy this house now. If it were someone else, even if you sell it to them at a price of 300,000 to 400,000, they would not dare to buy it." Gray thought about it for a few minutes, and then squeezed out a sentence from his mouth: "900,000, I won't sell it for a cent less." Shake thought briefly for more than ten seconds, and said, "Okay, it's just 900,000." "Cash," Gray added. "Okay," said Shaker, "when are we going to go through the closing procedures?" "This afternoon, if you want." "Okay then," Shake stood up, "at two o'clock this afternoon, we will meet at the real estate transaction center." Before Shaker walked out of the room, Gray suddenly remembered something and said, "Mr. Shaker, do you like dogs?" Shake turned around: "Dog? Yes, I like it, what's the matter?" "Well, I had a famous dog in the house, a purebred Scottish terrier. But now I'm selling the house to you, and I can't get a new place to live in anytime soon. , the problem of keeping a dog became quite troublesome. So I thought, if you want, how about I give you the dog that has been growing up in this house?" Shake thought for a while and asked, "Is there anything wrong with this dog?" "Don't worry," Gray laughed. "It's definitely a sensible and good dog. I can guarantee that you will like it." "Okay then, you can send it over after you complete the transfer procedures." "Thank you for continuing to keep him—you've solved a big problem for me," Gray said gratefully. "Then, see you later." "See you later."