She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 119: 【119】90s cook 119 (fifth watch)

Chapter 119: 【119】90s cook 119 (fifth watch)

After returning to H State, the siblings spent approximately ten days recuperating at home before starting school again, one entering his sophomore year of college and the other fifth grade.

In October of the same year, Xiao Hai turned two, Xiao Xiao successfully passed Piano Eighth Level, and she caught up with Level 8 in dance too—this girl was incredible!

While maintaining stable academic performance, she still practiced piano and danced so diligently every day. It was no wonder she had become the child other parents talked about. At this rate, if she could pass Piano Level 10 during her elementary school years, it seemed entirely possible.

At the same time, "Daqing Concubine" began serialization on a certain Chinese website. Meng Xiuying, using the pen name "Ming Xiu," embarked on her journey as an online novelist.

Because "Daqing Concubine" had plenty of Chapters ready, publishing them on a regular schedule was all that was needed. With the remaining time, she and Gong Mingxia collaborated once again, starting work on the ancient house fight drama "General’s Daughter," planning and outlining the series in detail.

Gong Mingxia had already planned that these two books would accumulate popularity, writing them as traditional literature that would be easy to publish later on. Once they gained popularity, they would embark on their adventures through time.

Time travel literature had been around since the 90s, for instance, "Xun Qin Ji" from 1997, and even before, "Crossing Time Love" by Xi Juan in 1993, followed by many more, hence their writings wouldn’t seem abrupt.

In mid-October, Mingxia received good news from Xiuying: two two-bedroom apartments were rented out at two thousand yuan each per month.

Those renting their apartments were white-collar workers from nearby office buildings, who paid promptly and signed one-year leases on the spot.

As for the remaining one-bedroom apartment, Xiuying felt it was a bit wasteful for her to live there by herself, so she rented it out to a white-collar worker for one thousand five hundred yuan per month.

She was currently living in an apartment that cost one thousand yuan, so the remaining five hundred yuan, together with the rent from the other two apartments, were all sent to Mingxia.

In other words, Mingxia basically let Xiuying live in her small apartment, but Xiuying thought that since she could rent it out for one thousand five hundred yuan, it was a pity to use it herself, so she preferred to live in her original apartment. It was as if Mingxia had rented out an apartment to Xiuying, and that was sufficient.

Since Xiuying also planned to buy her own house and save money, she didn’t refuse Mingxia’s kindness. Because of this, Mingxia could accept the money with peace of mind, which was also why the sisters could coexist long term.

Thus, just from the first year’s rent, Mingxia received a total of 54,000 yuan (48,000+6,000), and along with the rent from the two apartments in H State, which had increased this year to 800 yuan per month each, totaling 19,200 yuan, her annual rental income amounted to 73,200 yuan.

Just the first year brought this much; the future might be even more promising. Mingxia was very pleased and immediately used the funds, adding to one hundred thousand yuan, to buy two parking spaces in the community.

One parking space cost fifty thousand yuan, which might seem super cheap in future times, but it wasn’t cheap at all in this era.

She planned to use one of the parking spaces for her own family and the other for the restaurant.

At the end of 2003, she only received thirty thousand yuan in dividends, estimating that there might be no money left by next year.

Summing up the finances for 2003, she spent one hundred forty thousand yuan on renovating the apartments, one hundred thousand yuan on parking spaces, donated twenty thousand yuan, and spent forty thousand yuan, totaling three hundred thousand yuan.

Last Spring Festival, she had checked and had three hundred thousand yuan in savings. Throughout the year, she received eighty thousand yuan in dividends, over seventy thousand yuan from renting out the properties, and one hundred thousand yuan from the restaurant’s profits—that totalled 550,000 yuan. After subtracting the three hundred thousand yuan spent, twenty-five thousand yuan remained.

Of course, of this twenty-five thousand yuan, she invested fifty thousand yuan in the stock market and earned more than ten thousand yuan this year without cashing out, thus continuing to reinvest the profits. All things considered, she had about 200,000 yuan in funds left on her side. Cao Yuan had saved up fifty thousand yuan over the past two years, which she didn’t take and let him keep for household expenses, even though she ended up paying for most of the family’s expenses. However, the salary for the nanny was over twenty thousand yuan a year, which Cao Yuan covered.

This balance sheet wasn’t very detailed, with leftovers estimated in each category, but the overall difference wasn’t large, and she indeed had 200,000 yuan in funds left in her hands.