She Only Cares About Cultivation
Chapter 149: 【148】90s Cook 148 (third watch)

Chapter 149: 【148】90s Cook 148 (third watch)

47,400 + 72,000 = 119,400 yuan, which was the income from Beijing’s real estate. The rent on the new houses was low because they had just been handed over, and it was a deliberate move to accumulate popularity; the rent would definitely increase in the second year.

The income from the four properties in HZ was 96,000 yuan, with each property bringing in 2,000 yuan per month. Added together from both places, this amounted to 215,400 yuan—in other words, without doing anything for a year, she could later earn over 210,000 yuan from house rent.

However, just the loan payments alone were 28,000 yuan per month, which amounted to 336,000 yuan per year. The shortfall of 120,000 was essentially covered by Xiuying.

Thus, the income from her restaurant had become her regular income, and saving 200,000 yuan a year was easy for her.

But she had no plans to start a branch anymore; one store was enough for her to manage and keep her busy.

In the future, any money made from properties would be saved for philanthropy and earning Merit Values. After all, as long as there was enough money to spend, she was content. She didn’t live a luxurious life; instead, she lived like ordinary people, starting her day at sunrise and returning at sunset.

Her relationship with Xiuying had also grown due to the rise in house prices, allowing her to see more value in herself. Long-term cooperation was no problem, and it was all thanks to Xiuying’s care and help that she didn’t have to shuttle to and from Beijing. She had made a lot of money using Xiuying, and Xiuying had also earned money using her. Their mutually beneficial relationship could last a long time.

Xiao Xiao had entered the Law Department of Zhejiang University in 2011 with excellent grades and planned to pursue a career as a lawyer.

At the same time, she continued learning piano, finding more professional teachers on her own dime to teach her during almost all her free time in college. Even if she couldn’t become a musician in the future, she wanted to obtain several related certificates; should her law career falter, she could still work in piano education—essentially giving herself an alternative path.

Despite her family’s wealth, she never became arrogant or looked down on anyone. Mingxia had taught her well and she had fulfilled her promise to stay by her parents’ side.

Since her youngest brother had also joined the National Team and hardly came home all year round.

Cao Yang, after graduating with his Ph.D., was sent abroad for further studies, and his prospects for the future were promising.

It could be said that the children had their own goals to strive for. No matter how well-off their home conditions were, they didn’t take them for granted because they believed that only the fortunes they created for themselves were the best. Relying on their parents would never lead to real accomplishments.

Ten years later, real estate prices soared everywhere. In Beijing, rents rose from an initial one thousand eight hundred to between four to five thousand per month, and they might rise even higher in the future. House prices rose from the initial 28,000 yuan to 100,000 yuan per square meter. Just with these rents and properties, she was set for life without worry about food or drink.

Because she had reached such a worry-free state, Mingxia donated one hundred thousand yuan yearly to charity.

In 2015, after the departure of her mother-in-law and mother, the rural house was demolished and replaced with rental units in the village, which earned five hundred yuan per month.

By 2020, Mingxia was essentially semi-retired, driving around every day to collect rent money. When the pandemic hit, she decisively sold the relocated and rebuilt property in Sunshine Garden, at that time its price had risen to 30,000 yuan per square meter. The 65 square meter apartment brought in 1.95 million yuan, which she topped up with an additional fifty thousand yuan from her own savings to donate it all to pandemic research efforts.

Such a grand gesture landed her once again on the local media’s list of top charity donors.

In her remaining years, whenever there was a major disaster, she would sell properties to make donations.