Chapter 438: Chapter 438

The building had ten stories, equipped with central air conditioning and elevators. The renovation costs required at least one and a half million yuan.

At that time, he didn’t have enough money on hand, so he borrowed seven to eight hundred thousand for the renovations.

By the end of ’96, the renovation was complete. After that came the inspections for fire exits, elevators, air conditioning, and many other aspects. On Labor Day, the unveiling of the building took place, and the leasing began. The rightful source is novelFirｅ.net

Zheng Long established the "Chongqing Kai Xuan Property Company." He was the legal representative of the company and the overall person in charge of this property. In the future, he would face many issues, such as leasing, business registration, taxation, fire control, and so on.

Business at the street shops remained as usual. Every month, he would take a day to go back to his hometown to water the plants, and he would also place some of the food he made or packaged into the street shops.

The supermarket was now renting space to get by. Business wasn’t as good as before, but it wasn’t bad either. The next step was to save money to build another shopping center.

As the city developed and spread increasingly towards the suburbs, people had started looking for houses to rent in his village, so he might demolish his family house and rebuild it, constructing urban village homes. Consequently, he might not be able to look after the street shops anymore.

Plans cannot keep up with changes. In just half a year, people in his village had begun building their own houses. Zheng Long decisively demolished his old house and started laying the foundation, aiming for a ten-story building. His family’s homestead covered about six hundred square meters. Building a decent residential building posed no problems.

Since it was a rural construction, it was slightly cheaper than in the city. For ten stories, including both construction and renovation, it roughly needed one to one and a half million.

So-called renovations included laying floor tiles, painting walls, installing ceiling fans, kitchen and bathroom fixtures, doors and windows, and plumbing and electrical systems—all at least to the standard of an ordinary room.

By early ’98, the urban village renovation was complete, and the houses were properly furnished. It meant that the income earned in ’97 had all been invested into the houses.

The rent collected from the office buildings, as well as earnings from the supermarket and street shops, were all used to pay off the previous loans.

This left him debt-free. Profits from office buildings, the supermarket, street shops, and the urban village all contributed their share.

On average, the annual income was two hundred million yuan, a sum that was maintained until the year 2000. Over four years, he had gained ten million.

With that money, he invested in real estate because around 2003, housing prices began to soar. Therefore, that ten million, plus the subsequent earnings, might bring him an endless stream of wealth.

Zheng Kai didn’t marry until 2000, when he was thirty-nine. Only then, with his career and reputation well established, did he meet the woman of his life. Perhaps because of his parents’ influence, he had always been averse to marriage. Fortunately, Zheng Long never pressured him over the years and let him decide for himself. At the age of thirty-nine, the impressive man became a professor, the youngest full professor at his hospital, and his chosen partner was a university teacher.

Both children were very filial. They married quietly on May 1, 2000. Zheng Long was fifty-five that year—how quickly time flies.

In 2000, Zheng Xuan graduated from Qing University with a double major in French and German, earning two bachelor’s degrees. Because of her excellent performance, she was directly admitted to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with a bright future ahead.

The siblings were so outstanding because they had an even more remarkable father. With Zheng Long’s precise investment in motorcycle factories, accessory factories, office buildings, supermarkets, street shops, and urban villages, after fifty-five, he could sit back and count his money.

It was at this time that he began to be actively involved in public welfare. He invested on one hand and engaged in charity on the other, allowing money to generate more money, which he would then . This cycle continued until the day he could no longer move and lay in bed reflecting on his life, breathing out a long, turbid sigh.