When they arrived at a new environment, it was the instinct of hunters to go into the mountains to hunt, the place where Lu Shanmin and his party were located should be an old city, the surrounding houses were all five or six storey high, the outer walls of the houses were exposed with old wires like spider webs, the lanes between the houses were very narrow, the restaurants and grocery stores were disorganized, there was a vegetable market not far away, the lanes were full of people coming and going, this time was the peak time for getting off work, there were shirtless men full of sweat and smell, and there were also people in suits and leather shoes, dressed fashionably。 Lu Shanmin was a little strange, in the taxi, the flowers he saw along the way were like brocades, and he only passed a few streets, as if he had entered another world.

Huang Mei pouted a little dissatisfied, "There is also such a place in the East China Sea, we won't live here in the future." ”

Zhang Li said lightly: "Before we came, we checked the rent in Donghai on the Internet, and the money we had on us could only live in this kind of place, those clean and bright apartments, the rent was tens of thousands a month." ”

Chen Kun was also a little disappointed, "Hey, let's do it first, when we make money, we will move into a high-end community next year." ”

The four of them waited until it was dark before Chen Kun's cousin hurried over, looking about thirty years old, wearing a black professional outfit with exhaustion on her face.

Chen Kun rushed over, "cousin"

The woman smiled and nodded, looked the two girls up and down, and when she saw Lu Shanmin, dressed in blue-gray clothes and stepping on a pair of rubber shoes, a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes.

Chen Kun introduced with a smile: "This is my cousin, Li Jing", and then looked at Zhang Li and Huang Mei, "These two are the college classmates I mentioned on the phone." Finally, he pointed to Lu Shanmin, "This is the fellow we met on the train, and he also lives with us temporarily." ”

Zhang Li and Huang Mei smiled and nodded, "Hello Sister Li, thank you for finding us a house." ”

Lu Shanmin also nodded at Li Jing with a smile, but did not get a response from the other party.

"Let's go, you're tired from a few days on the train, let's have dinner first, and then we'll take you to where you're staying. ”

I casually found a restaurant facing the street, ordered a few dishes, and the group had not eaten a decent meal for several days, and at the moment they didn't care about the image, gobbled it up, and a table of meals was quickly swept away.

After eating, Zhang Li wanted to go to settle the bill, but Li Jing waved her hand, "Let's let me settle it, you just arrived in the East China Sea, you can save a little, and you will understand in the future that although the East China Sea is full of gold, it has nothing to do with you." ”

In addition to the taxi driver just now, Li Jing is the first person from the East China Sea that Lu Shanmin came into contact with, as a careful hunter, seeing her face full of exhaustion and sorrow, he knew that what she said just now was by no means a casual joke, Lu Shanmin thought to himself, if he wants to gain a foothold in the East China Sea, maybe it is not as easy as Chen Kun imagined.

Chen Kun smiled, attached to Zhang Li's ear and said, "You take it, my sister is rich." ”

When checking out, Lu Shanmin secretly glanced at two hundred and twenty yuan. This was once again beyond his realization, enough money for a family in Mazui Village to eat for a month, but only enough for a few people to have a meal here.

The rental house is not far from the place to eat, under the leadership of Li Jing, the group came to a dilapidated building, in Lu Shanmin's opinion, this building is not much better than the dilapidated hotel in Luliang County, and looked up, No. 222, Minsheng West Road, Luohu Street, Baihui District.

The narrow corridors, dim lighting, and mottled white ash on the walls are not the same as the East China Sea he imagined. It's a completely different world from the world you see in a taxi.

Li Jing opened the door, a musty smell came to the face, the four of them turned around, two bedrooms and one living room, less than forty square meters, a color TV in the living room, an old three-person sofa with broken skin, and a yellowed coffee table in front of the sofa. Each of the two bedrooms has a small bed and no other furniture. For the people of Lu who have spent the night in the deep mountains and old forests more than once, there is nothing to be dissatisfied with, as long as they can have a place to stay. But Chen Kun and Huang Mei showed obvious displeasure on their faces, and even Zhang Li frowned slightly.

Li Jing swept the expressions of the crowd, and said a little impatiently: "I spent a lot of effort to find this suite, and I asked a friend to find it, when I first arrived in the East China Sea, I also lived in a basement of a few square meters, so you can be content." ”

Zhang Li bumped Huang Mei and Chen Kun with her elbow, and hurriedly said with a smile: "We are very satisfied, Sister Li bothered." ”

Li Jing barely squeezed out a smile, "You guys just stay first, I still have something to do, you clean up and rest early." ”

Seeing Li Jing standing in place and looking at everyone, without the slightest intention of moving, Zhang Li stepped forward with a smile, "Sister Li, how to pay this rent?"

Li Jing smiled, "I know it's not easy for you to come here, so I specially found a friend of a second-hand housing agent, so that he could help talk to the landlord about the minimum, and the houses in this area used to cost at least seven thousand a month." ”

As he spoke, he looked at the expressions of his mouths wide open, and continued, "Finally, I finally talked about five thousand months. ”

Huang Mei couldn't help but cry out, "Five thousand." ”

Li Jing looked impatient, "This is already the cheapest price in this area." Huang Mei clutched the bag in her hand tightly, which contained 15,000 yuan brought out by the three of them.

Li Jing sighed and said: "You have just graduated, you don't know, this world has to spend money to hire people to do things, in order to rent a house for you, my leg has been broken in the past few days, and I also gave my friend 5,000 yuan to pay some fees, if it weren't for Chen Kun is my cousin, I wouldn't bother to care." I won't care about the rest of the running expenses and tonight's meal, just give me 20,000 yuan. ”

Hearing the 20,000 yuan, Chen Kun's expression that had been grinning froze, Huang Mei tightly pulled the bag in her hand and looked at Li Jing in a panic, and a trace of anger flashed in Zhang Li's eyes.

Lu Shanmin, who had been watching coldly, had a fierce light in his eyes, glaring at Li Jing fiercely like a beast in the mountains, speaking of which, Lu Shanmin's gratitude to the woman in front of him turned into incomparable anger, and he had never seen the world again, and at this time, he could also see that the woman in front of him regarded a group of people in front of him as lambs to be slaughtered.

Li Jing saw Lu Shanmin's gaze, subconsciously took a step back in fright, and then puffed up his chest and said: "Even if the intermediary company rents a house for you, you have to pay a month's rent to the intermediary, if it weren't for me, you are not familiar with life, and you don't know how much money you will be pitted." ”

Lu Shanmin snorted coldly: "But Chen Kun is your cousin." ”

Li Jing raised her neck, "So what, my brother still settles accounts." ”

Lu Shanmin gritted his teeth, glared angrily, clenched his fists, and walked towards Li Jing step by step, "One thousand hardship fees, a total of sixteen thousand, if you want it, if you don't want it, just find me the landlord, let's talk about it ourselves." ”

Li Jing looked at Lu Shanmin, who was dressed as a mountain villager and had a hideous face, and slowly retreated in fright, and a news that he saw on TV a few days ago flashed in his mind, a barbarian who went to the city to work in a remote mountainous area, followed a lonely woman in the middle of the night, failed to rob her, angrily twisted the woman's neck, and snatched all the belongings on her body.

Lu Shanmin approached step by step, and Li Jing retreated step by step, until he retreated to the point where there was no way back, and then said angrily: "Okay, I promise you." ”

Lu Shanmin snorted coldly, took out the money from his backpack, counted four thousand yuan from it and handed it to Huang Mei.

Huang Mei took out the money from her bag and counted it three times tremblingly before handing it to Li Jing.

Li Jing snorted coldly, put the money in his pocket, and said to Chen Kun fiercely: "Chen Kun, you are a college student, how can you mix with a barbarian, I advise you to stay away from him in the future, this kind of person who wants money and doesn't want to die can do anything." With that, he slammed the door and left.

Zhang Li exhaled, "Thank you"

Lu Shanmin smiled slightly, "I also have a share of this rent." ”

Huang Mei looked unhappy, and said to Chen Kun complainingly: "Why is your cousin such a person, you still brag about how rich she is and how good she is." ”

Chen Kun was ashamed and angry, "In her hometown before, she was not such a person, who knew that she had been in the East China Sea for a few years and saw money like this, and even I was pitted." ”

Zhang Li frowned and said, "Let's think about what to do in the future." ”

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Zhang Li continued, "I suggest that everyone take out all the money on their bodies and make overall arrangements, I still have five hundred on me." ”

Huang Mei took out her wallet and counted, "I have more than five hundred." ”

Chen Kun touched his pocket, "I still have six hundred yuan here." ”

Lu Shanmin brought 5,000 yuan when he went out of the mountain, and the bus and train tickets cost more than 700 yuan, and he still had more than 200 yuan left. "Two hundred and fifty dollars. ”

Zhang Li continued: "I keep the money on my body first, Huangmei originally had 15,000 yuan shared by the three of us, and now there are 3,000 yuan left after paying the rent, and this 3,000 yuan is used as the public expense of the four of us to pay for water, electricity, property management fees and the purchase of vegetables, rice, oil and salt." ”

Chen Kun frowned, "The three thousand yuan belongs to the three of us." ”

Zhang Li snorted coldly, "Without the mountain people, the 15,000 yuan would have been stolen on the train a long time ago, and without him, you would have to pay 4,000 yuan more to your cousin." ”

Chen Kun lowered his head indignantly, what happened tonight made him feel very bad, he was cheated by his cousin, he lost face, and he was Lu Shanmin who saved the danger twice in water and fire, and he was useless. It is no secret that Chen Kun has a crush on Zhang Li, and now the girl he likes is defending a mountain villager everywhere, and he is a dignified college student, so he has no face.

"Yes, but I have one condition, I don't want to share a room with him. ”

Zhang Li was about to say something, but Lu Shanmin shook his head at her, "I sleep on the sofa, and the living expenses I owe will be made up when I find a job."

Zhang Li glanced at Lu Shanmin suspiciously, she didn't understand what kind of person Lu Shanmin was, sometimes he was very good at talking like a bad person, even if Chen Kun and Huang Mei's sarcasm intentionally or unintentionally began on the train, there was no sign of anger, and sometimes he was like a lone wolf full of wildness, snatching back his wallet alone on the train, and he was jealous and hateful in the face of Li Jing just now.

Seeing that Lu Shanmin did not object, she did not raise any more objections, she also understood Chen Kun's mood at this moment, in order to get along with each other, it could be regarded as giving Chen Kun a step.

Next, Zhang Li began to arrange for cleaning, and she was busy until late at night before she could clean up.

After a few days on the train, and another busy night, they went back to their rooms to rest. Lu Shanmin slept on the shabby sofa and gradually fell asleep, in the dream, Bai Ling told himself about the beauty of the East China Sea with a smile on his face.