In this life, Yuan Chun only had three children. Although Dou Dou wasn’t a child of the Yun family, she received the same treatment as the two younger siblings, and the Yun family never looked down on her.

Yuan Chun and Yun Xiaoqian graduated from university and were assigned back to their hometown county, where the couple worked in a government unit.

The following year, the twins started first grade, and Mr. Yun and Mrs. Yun divided the family, giving each of the three sons two thousand yuan to buy their own houses.

In the county, a courtyard with three main rooms cost only six to seven hundred yuan, and a newly built three-bedroom, two-living-room house was only one thousand yuan. Two thousand yuan was more than enough to settle down.

Moreover, after the Yun brothers started working, Mr. Yun and Mrs. Yun never asked them to turn in their salaries, so they saved all the money they earned.

Combined with their wives’ salaries, each small family had significant savings.

Yuan Chun didn’t buy a house. She and Yun Xiaoqian moved to live in the Sun Family’s large courtyard, leaving some money for pocket expenses and using the rest to buy shops.

Shops costing one to two hundred yuan each, Yuan Chun bought more than a dozen.

After the economic reforms, shops that originally belonged to the state returned to individual owners. Many cautious people feared the state might change its mind and reclaim them, so many were selling their shops.

Since there were many sellers and few buyers, shop prices were very low, and some could be bought for just a few dozen yuan.

Yuan Chun bought more than a dozen shops on the future bustling street in the county, spending only eighteen hundred yuan in total.

There was a two-story shop that sold for just three hundred yuan.

Yuan Chun seemed to see a business opportunity and encouraged a few sisters-in-law, Yun Xiaolei and Yun Xiaofei, to use their spare money to buy a few small shops.

Yuan Chun had a considerable amount of money on hand.

She had been saving the Sun family’s couple’s pension, the money from selling her job, the six hundred yuan bride price given by the Yun family when she got married, and all kinds of red envelope money collected over the years from the children.

Over the years, she only spent Yun Xiaoqian’s salary and hadn’t used it all.

Yuan Chun counted her savings, still over four thousand yuan. She took out two thousand yuan to buy a piece of land in the outskirts of the county set for development in 1984.

She took out another fifteen hundred yuan to buy an abandoned factory in the county.

Because, in the original soul’s memory, this factory would be spotted by a Hong Kong businessman next year, who offered fifty thousand yuan, which caused quite a stir in this small county.

After spending most of the family savings, Yuan Chun focused on work and caring for her children. As for household chores, Yun Xiaoqian would eagerly do them, even helping with the children’s homework was his responsibility.

All Yuan Chun needed to do was wash the family’s clothes and cook one meal at night.

A few months later, the Hong Kong businessman Yuan Chun had been expecting really came. Just like in the past life, the businessman was interested in the location of the abandoned factory.

Having waited patiently, Yuan Chun jumped out and declared herself the owner of the abandoned factory.

After intense bargaining between buyer and seller, the abandoned factory sold for one hundred thousand yuan more than in the previous life, a total of sixty thousand yuan.

However, at Yuan Chun’s request, this transaction was not made public. Besides the Hong Kong businessman and Yuan Chun, no one knew how much money the abandoned factory sold for, not even the government officials who guided the Hong Kong businessman to view the land knew.

Therefore, unlike in the previous life, this money didn’t cause a sensation throughout the county.

After receiving a windfall, Yuan Chun only told Yun Xiaoqian. Then, taking advantage of the long vacation, the couple took their three children to Beijing, where they bought three rundown courtyards.

Yun Xiaoqian: "Yuan Chun, we have enough money to buy three good courtyards, so why buy these rundown houses? They can’t even be lived in without repairs, plus we’re not in Beijing; if the houses collapse in the future, we won’t even know about it."

"They won’t collapse; we’ll hire someone to do simple repairs, costing just one to two hundred yuan." Then, wait for next year’s demolition.

This place will see the return of a real estate-related overseas Chinese next year to demolish the courtyards and build buildings, allowing her to receive a good number of apartments.

This time, she wanted houses.

The houses in Beijing would get more expensive the longer you wait, so it’s best to store up while they’re cheap.

In this life, although Yuan Chun was a government employee, she later became a landlady, earning millions annually. Her family of five lived wealthily and happily, envying everyone else.