After Grandma Ma helped Wang Yue get his household registration booklet sorted out, she took him to buy a house, just as he had asked.
The house wasn't very large, with only three rooms, but it was in a good location, very close to both the canal and Flower Street. It was only a few minutes away on foot. So although houses in the old town usually cost five or six hundred yuan per square meter, the owner was asking eight hundred.
The house itself was over a thousand square meters, and with the entire courtyard included, it came to a total of eighty thousand yuan.
Wang Yue had that much money on hand, and he really liked the courtyard. So he went to Ma Siyi, took out his eighty thousand yuan, and bought it outright.
The moment the house was officially his, Wang Yue finally heard the system notification.
"Ding! Congratulations, host, on completing the side quest: Establish Yourself on Flower Street!"
"Ding! Congratulations, host! You've obtained the skill Mosquito-Repelling Talisman!"
When Grandma Ma first heard the asking price, she had started looking for families on Flower Street who might be able to help Wang Yue scrape the money together. But then she learned that he had already paid, and that the house had even been transferred into his name. She was utterly astonished.
But Grandma Ma soon began to worry. She was concerned that Wang Yue had spent all his money at once to buy the house, without thinking carefully about how to manage his finances. Still, it was his money, and she didn't feel it was her place to interfere.
The reason she thought that way was that she had no idea how much money Wang Yue actually had.
But because Grandma Ma had asked around about