After sitting down and interrogating for a while, Cao Mo understood what was going on.

Although Xikang Street has been renovated several times, the streets have been renovated a lot, but the interior of the courtyard houses is dilapidated, and many residents have either moved out long ago, and the houses are empty and left unattended, or there is no money left to renovate, or the residents are relatively old and do not have the energy to clean up.

However, Xikang Street is located within the Second Ring Road, and it is also an urban sub-commercial center in Qingshan District, with many high-end office buildings and shopping malls, and there is a strong demand for high-end rental housing.

Cao Jiaying really only rented out the extra room in his house at the beginning to subsidize the family.

Later, she found that the courtyard near Xikang Street was cleaned up, the room was simply renovated after being vacated, and the house with some warm home decoration was particularly easy to rent, and one room could be rented for 156 or more.

At the price of 120,000 yuan in total rent per year, three courtyards with a total of 20 rooms in the vicinity were signed for long-term rental, and then invested almost 100,000 yuan to renovate and get the intermediary to rent at twice the price.

Cao Jiaying has been doing this one after another, and it has been a year, not only has the invested funds been recovered, but with his own four bedrooms, he can still have a small income of 20,000 yuan a month.

"Your sister is very powerful now, a little rich woman, much better than our so-called white-collar workers," Cheng Xi hugged Cao Jiaying's shoulders and said a little doting, "She is still thinking about renting a three-story old house near Qingjietang and opening a homestay - she lied to me that you instructed her, but this affected her studies too much, so I suspected that she might be lying to me and didn't promise to help her." ”

"That old building is really good, it's in Tianzifang, the backyard pushes the door out of the Qingjie Pond, even if it's too wasteful of energy to be a homestay, you can also rent it for a long time and sublet out eight rooms. Cao Jiaying was dissatisfied with Cheng Xi's suppression of her, and pouted.

"Then what about your studies? You won't tell me that you plan to stop studying, right?" Cao Mo asked angrily.

"Aren't you a drop-out? As soon as you come back, you want to teach others. Cao Jiaying said unconvinced.

"Your wings are stiff, be careful I whip you. Cao Mo raised her hand and pulled it over, but it gently fell on Jiaying's still somewhat baby fat face, grabbed it and pinched it twice.

"Brother, why don't you apply to be transferred back to China to work. Then I can study hard, and you can take over the matter of renting a house after you work in Dongsheng, isn't there no problem?" Cao Jiaying pulled Cao Mo's hand off her face and said shakingly.

Looking at Jiaying's expectant eyes, Cao Mo was a little soft-hearted, but how could he leave behind his mess in Kanem?

Cao Mo patted Jiaying's face with pity, and said: "I can't leave the work at hand for a while, let's see if there is a chance to apply for a transfer back to China to work after a while-isn't that old Hun Qiu going to be released from prison, let him do this, save him from being released from prison and can't find a job, and cause trouble for us again? By the way, what about the old woman?"

"The phone didn't get through, so I guess I hid somewhere to play cards, and deliberately didn't answer my call...... Cao Jiaying said.

"You text her and say I'm going back to China?" Cao Mo said.

"I texted, but she didn't reply, probably thinking that I was tricking her into coming back to work and pretending not to see the phone. Cao Jiaying pouted.

"......" Cheng Xi patted his forehead, feeling quite speechless for Cao Mo's family.

"When you return to China this time, do you bring any gifts to me and Sister Cheng Xi?" Cao Jiaying looked at the two rather heavy suitcases with sparkling eyes.

In addition to some ivory, wood carvings and other limited handicrafts, Kanem really has nothing else that is particularly worth buying and bringing back to China - Cao Mo mainly bought a batch of high-quality rubies from Kanem this time to bring back to China, but for personal collection, it has not been cut, let alone made into necklaces, rings and other hand ornaments.

In addition, when he was transiting in London, he bought three laptops in the duty-free shop, one for Song Yuqing as a gift, one for his own use, and one for Jiaying.

Of course, there are down jackets and the like, but he bought it according to Jiaying's height of 1.63 meters; if Cheng Xi hadn't grown any more, he still remembered that when she had a physical examination in the third year of high school, her height was 1.68 meters.

"Of course you have to buy a bunch of gifts, you can pick them yourself!" Cao Mo said, after saying this, he wanted to open the suitcase, he thought that he should slap himself, he was stupid and couldn't speak, isn't this obviously not buying a gift for Cheng Xi?

"I don't want any gifts," Cheng Xi was very sensitive to see Cao Mo hesitate, and said, "You have to invite us to dinner at noon, Yu Jing was kicked by your kick a lot......" and turned around and called Yu Nujing and Chen Chang to come downstairs.

"Yu Jing is fine, right?" Although Cao Mo subconsciously retracted some strength after seeing the two girls sneak attack him, he still didn't take it lightly for the girl, and asked worriedly, "Do you want to check it?"

"It's nothing, I heard Cheng Xi say that Yu Jing is known as a cow in their school, your kick is just right, if you kick it off, it may be a big problem," Chen Chang walked downstairs at this time and said, "But at noon today, you must let us slaughter us, otherwise Yu Jing really can't swallow this breath in her heart......"

Cao Jiaying was present, Chen Chang didn't directly say that Yu Jing was looked at by Cao Mo, and he was about to whisper to Cheng Xi to break all this.

"Chen Chang!" Yu Jing's face turned red with shame, and she stomped her feet at the staircase and shouted to stop Chen Chang.

"What's wrong?" When Cheng Xi rushed over, the police car hadn't left yet, and then Cao Jiaying pretended to rush back from school. She knew that Cao Mo climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard and was beaten by Yu Jing and Chen Chang as thieves, but Yu Jing was kicked down by Cao Mo before they recognized each other's faces, and the key details had not yet been taken to reveal them.

"It's nothing, just kidding, Jiaying and her brother all put a piece of Yu Jing's chest in the blue, they really want to slaughter him well, so that Yu Jing will not suffer. Seeing Yu Jing's embarrassed appearance, Chen Chang was afraid that she would turn her face, so he hurriedly changed his words to discuss which high-end restaurant to find at noon to kill Cao Mo to vent his anger.

Cao Jiaying now has more than 20 rooms in his hands, which are very rentable, and there is still one room left on the second floor of his house, which was surrendered by a girl a week ago, and has not been able to be listed for the time being.

Yu Jing and Cheng Xi are in the same dormitory in college, while Chen Chang is a colleague of Yu Jing who joined the company after graduation, and he also just graduated this year and applied to stay in Xinhai.

According to Cheng Xi, the two girls rented a room on the second floor from his house, and in addition to the hall house, there were two rooms downstairs that were rented to two couples who worked nearby.

Because it is an old house, it has been simply renovated, and the small wing room with a back patio of only four or five square meters has been transformed into a bathroom.

The conditions are still simple, Cao Mo saw that the room was newly paved with laminate flooring, but it was very clean and tidy.

The selection of curtains and home textiles is particularly warm, and the furniture, including the sofa and coffee table in the hall downstairs, are not high-end goods, but they are very chic, and they can not feel the dilapidated old house.

Cao Mo carried the suitcase upstairs, asked Jiaying to help him pack his luggage, hung up all the clothes, he hurried to turn on the computer, and replied to Lucy, Kabuja, and Abacha by email, saying that he had arrived safely in Xinhai.

He hasn't had time to apply for a domestic card, and he doesn't want to use a landline to make international calls, so email contact is the most convenient.

Before leaving Kanem, he paid an additional $100,000 for the construction of the company, and asked the Oyo State Communications Company to pull a communication line into Ibogu, which finally solved the problem of using mobile phones and the Internet in the mining area and the factory.

This also made it easier for him to communicate directly with Kabuja and Lucy in China.

Otherwise, chatting about work through a satellite phone will cost hundreds of dollars, which is really heart-wrenching.

It is probably hard to imagine that the side of West Africa's most prosperous city could be closed to such an extent.

Cao Mo waited for Jiaying to help him pack his clothes, he also briefly skimmed the emails of the past two days, went downstairs and saw three girls sitting on the sofa in the living room talking, and asked, "Have you chosen a good place?"

He has been away from Xinhai for three years, and he is not familiar with any high-end restaurants nearby, so he leaves it to Cheng Xi and them to decide where to eat at noon.

"Cheng Xi helps you, don't let us kill you, you have to pick a nearby Hunan restaurant!" Chen Chang muttered a little unhappily.

"Yu Jing is a Hunan girl, Cao Mo invited her to make amends, of course, it has to be to her taste. Cheng Xi took care of Cao Mo's face and explained.

Yu Jing didn't care, she wasn't picky, she heard Chen Chang's dissatisfaction, and helped explain: "The Hunan restaurant is very good, I've always wanted to eat spicy, I used to eat with you, and I almost forgot the spicy taste!"

Yu Jing was still very embarrassed to see Cao Mo, and she didn't dare to look at him squarely.

Yu Jing and Chen Chang both belong to the beautiful category of girls, but after a very short period of contact, you will find that beautiful girls have really different personalities.

Jiaying is a small picker, where is she willing to let Yu Jing and Chen Chang slaughter Cao Mo?

Seeing that Yu Jing had no opinion, she hurriedly picked up the Nokia mobile phone that Cao Mo sent back to China two years ago and booked a table at a nearby Hunan restaurant.