Chapter 18 Who Is the One Looking Down on Others
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 18
Chapter Title: Who Is the One Looking Down on Others?
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The sightseeing cart had several rows.
Su Yi and the saleswoman guiding them sat in the first row.
While Liu Sheng and his fiancée sat in the very last row.
Although they loathed the sight of each other, it wasn't to the point of cursing in the streets or getting into a physical fight the moment they met.
At this time, Liu Sheng was also asking in the back row about what Su Yi and his companion were here to do. The sales representative who brought him was quite honest and answered truthfully.
"My colleague said that they’re here to buy a house and have taken a liking to two of them. One is the lakeside villa with good scenery that we’re going to look at in a moment, and the other’s located closer to the entrance of the villa district, which is more convenient."
"I reckon they'll be signing the contract right after viewing them."
"Signing a contract?"
Liu Sheng sneered upon hearing this.
"Buddy, you guys are too honest. One look at the guy and you know he's just here to broaden his horizons. Let alone buying a house here, if he emptied all of his pockets, it probably wouldn't even be enough to pay the deposit.
Look at his Taobao outfit*, does he look like someone who can afford a villa?"
The sales representative had been in this line of work for many years. He could still distinguish between those who genuinely came to buy a house and those who just came to look around.
If he really only relied on clothing to judge whether a client could afford a house, he would have been out of a job long ago.
Take the two couples in front of him, for example.
Although the handsome man and beautiful woman in the front wore somewhat simple clothes, that girl was simply too beautiful, and her aura was too outstanding. At a glance, one could tell that it was impossible for her to be an ordinary person. A man who could have such a beautiful female companion beside him naturally couldn't be ordinary either.
But the couple in the back was different. Although they were both wearing designer brands, they were actually all affordable entry-level models. If one really had to talk about the price, they weren't actually that expensive.
At most, it was the LV bag in the woman's hand that was relatively valuable.
This kind of person, on the contrary, seemed more like someone who had no money but slapped their own face until it was swollen just to look fat**, insisting on hanging some luxury goods on themselves to look well off.
To a discerning sales representative, between these two groups of people, there was actually no suspense as to who was more likely to buy a house after viewing.
But after all, the other party was a client. Even though they weren't here to buy a house, out of professional ethics, it wasn't appropriate for him to directly contradict the man, so he could only smile and say nothing.
But while he didn't speak, Liu Sheng, who was anxious to claw back a bit of face in front of his fiancée, was relentless.
He hurriedly added:
"Believe me, I know the guy. He's just a lowly manager in charge of purchasing at my brother-in-law's factory.
If he really had the money to buy a house here, how could he possibly be stuck at a dead-end job in a factory?"
Hearing this, the sales representative really couldn't hold back anymore. Thinking that Liu Sheng and his fiancée weren't here to buy a house anyway, and even if they complained about him, he probably wouldn't be punished, he immediately said:
"Actually, sometimes a job doesn't prove anything. We previously received a client who usually just sold fish in the wet market not far from the residential area. Quite a few people nearby knew him.
When he came to our place to look at houses, he didn't even have time to change his clothes. He was wearing a blue work uniform that was dirty all over and reeked of fish.
At the time, someone here looked down on him like a snobbish dog. Seeing that he was dressed ordinarily and usually sold fish as his livelihood, they thought that he was just here to join the fun. Plus, it was busy that day, so they were very perfunctory when receiving him.
Who could have expected that this fish-selling boss owned a twenty-plus-story office building himself. He usually sold fish just because he liked fishing but didn't like eating fish. At first, he sold them in bits and pieces, but later, as he got more repeat customers, he simply decided to sell fish every morning in passing.
That boss directly threw down over sixty million and bought Building Number Two in our villa district with full payment, and he filed a complaint against the sales representative who received him.
The final result was that naturally the sales representative was fired, and that boss happily took Building Number Two, preparing to use it as a marital home for his son in the future."
Assuming that someone couldn't afford something just because they dressed ordinarily and had an ordinary job... For some reason, Liu Sheng always felt that this story from the sales representative was made up on the spot with the purpose of scolding him for being a snob.
But he couldn't just flare up directly, as the other party hadn't named names to scold him.
Moreover, he was also afraid that if he got serious and started an argument, it would ruin the house-viewing and displease his fiancée again.
So despite feeling unhappy in his heart, he could only mutter, "Just wait and see, he definitely won't buy anything," to end the topic.
The sales representative beside him, however, disagreed.
For a client like Su Yi, regardless of whether they bought a house or not, receiving them was much more comfortable than receiving someone like Liu Sheng.
At the very least, when the saleswoman was introducing the house to Su Yi, the latter was listening attentively.
But when he was introducing things to Liu Sheng, the man was looking left and right, not taking a single word in at all, which was extremely disrespectful.
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"We've arrived."
The sightseeing cart didn't travel for long in the massive villa district before arriving in front of a four-story single-family villa.
It had to be said, the scenery around the villa was excellent, and the distance between each building exceeded a hundred meters.
Just across a road from the entrance was a lake connected to the great river. The water was crystal clear to the bottom, obviously having been specially treated.
Moreover, considering the flood season in Jiangcheng, although the villa district was situated by the lake, the terrain was very high. Even if the water rose, it was impossible for it to flood the houses.
It could be said that every aspect had been considered.
Behind the house was a forest, and the neighbors were only on the left and right sides.
The saleswoman introduced enthusiastically:
"Mr. Su, the main selling point of this building of ours is its quiet and secluded nature, creating a residence that can give people peace of mind in such a large city.
All the landscaping designs here, we’ve tried our best to build them according to the natural ecology. At the same time, we’ve done a lot of biological pest control work, allowing you to experience the quiet life in the woods without being affected by the various annoying snakes, insects, rats, and ants found in deep, old forests.
Getting close to nature to a limited extent, that’s our slogan. After all, in this day and age, if you really made people live in a purely natural, desolate wilderness, no one would be able to stand it, right?
Look at the lake in front of you. On the side closer to the villa, we’ve specifically set up a net enclosure. Not only does it prevent garbage from outside from floating in, but we’ve also stocked the water with a large number of native fish from the great river, and there are dedicated personnel to feed them. If you have a hobby for fishing, after becoming our homeowner, you can fish here as you please. All species of fish within the net enclosure are bred by us and can be caught. We also hired professionals to find over a hundred excellent fishing spots around the lake and built them into dedicated fishing platforms. This is an exclusive benefit for the owners of the single-family villas. When the time comes, you can freely choose a spot as your private fishing platform and go there anytime you want. This comes with the purchase of the villa and doesn’t require you to pay extra.
Besides the fish in the lake, you can also freely pick some of the things produced in the forest behind the house. The fruit trees inside are regularly tended to by our people. Moreover, there are mushrooms in the forest during this season. Many homeowners are fond of this. When they have free time, they’ll take a moment to go into the forest to pick mushrooms and take them back to eat. After all, this is what truly counts as purely natural and pollution-free."
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*Taobao is a massive Chinese online shopping platform similar to Amazon or eBay, known for cheap and affordable goods. Saying someone wears "Taobao goods" implies their clothes are cheap and unbranded.
**A very common Chinese idiom. It describes someone who does things beyond their means to pretend that they’re wealthy, capable, or successful in order to save face or impress others.
T/N - Jeez, that last part almost scared me off. It’s literally like that in the raws too, just a wall of text. I’m of the mind that the author just copied this from a villa selling site and just pasted it here. 😅
Still, I hope this doesn’t drag on for too long. House buying and villa viewing doesn’t really make for a riveting read.