4. Chapter 4 The Mysterious Guest
The landlord is an old man who is over half a hundred years old, after his wife died of illness a few years ago, he caught up with menopause, and his temper is a little maddening, especially the problem of loving money makes many people unbearable, but because of the cheap rent here, Jiang Fei can only swallow his anger until now. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Uncle Lin." Facing the landlord, Jiang Fei opened the door and greeted him politely.
As soon as he entered the door, Uncle Lin frowned, looked east and west, and touched the walls of his house everywhere with his hands.
"Xiao Jiang, did you fight with someone again yesterday?" Uncle Lin took out his reading glasses and carefully looked at the wall to see if there was any damage.
Jiang Fei touched his nose and said, "You don't live in another community, how do you know about things here?" ”
Uncle Lin sighed after hearing this, and said: "Xiao Jiang, who hasn't been young, I think your Uncle Lin was also fighting and killing back then, and it stopped when he met your aunt, so you have to learn to settle down, look back and think that you have lived with me for three years, you say, how do I treat you?" ”
Jiang Fei was shocked, this old man wouldn't want to raise the rent, right?
"Uncle Lin, if you have anything to say, just say it." Jiang Fei sat down and said.
Uncle Lin looked at the house, and then said distressedly: "Xiao Jiang, this house is where I lived with your aunt before, and you also know that your aunt left a few years ago, and I was left alone, so this day is not easy." ”
Jiang Fei nodded, according to what he said, the rent increase is certain.
"You see that the houses around me have gone up, shouldn't I also go up here?" Uncle Lin turned his head and looked at Jiang Fei pitifully, hoping that Jiang Fei would give a happy answer.
Jiang Fei nodded and said, "Uncle Lin, you can go as much as you think is appropriate, you and your aunt have helped me a lot in the past few years." ”
Uncle Lin nodded with satisfaction after hearing this, and said, "Xiao Jiang, it's not easy for you to come here as a foreigner to work, and the restaurant doesn't make much money, so I'll raise it by three hundred, you can see it." ”
Jiang Fei's face couldn't help but twitch after hearing this.
When he was a special soldier, every time he completed a mission, the state would reward a part of the funds, but at that time he divided the money into two, one part was donated to the poor mountainous areas, and the other part was sent to his adoptive father and mother, and he kept very little.
So after the failure of that mission, the money for coming to Yangcheng was quickly spent, and he could only work in a restaurant in order to make a living, and the restaurant business was poor, and the salary had not been paid for two months.
"Okay, but I don't have any money right now." Jiang Fei said.
Uncle Lin was also expected to hear it, after all, Jiang Fei had been in arrears for two months.
"I'm not in a hurry, let's wait until you have the money, and then pay the arrears of rent at once." After Uncle Lin finished speaking, he was ready to leave with his hands behind his back.
At this moment, the door to the toilet opened.
"Brother Jiang, I have the money." Xiaohua walked out of the toilet, her voice was pleasant, her innocent face was like egg white, and her big eyes were as pleasing as if she could speak.
This is the first time Jiang Fei has taken a serious look at Xiaohua's appearance, it turns out that she looks quite good, Jiang Fei can't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva,
Uncle Lin stroked his glasses, and a girl came out of the toilet at once, and said that she had money, which made Uncle Lin's eyes light up all of a sudden.
"Xiao Jiang, when did you find a daughter-in-law?" Uncle Lin first asked curiously.
Jiang Fei's face turned red, and he quickly clarified: "Don't get me wrong, we are not that kind of relationship. ”
Uncle Lin was anxious when he heard this, if it wasn't for that kind of relationship, how could the little girl pay for Jiang Fei, so he hurriedly said: "Silly boy, don't deny it if Uncle is a person from here, look at how handsome the girls are, they all moved over to live with you, you are an old fool." ”
Jiang Fei was speechless for a while, it seemed that he couldn't explain clearly, and Xiaohua on the side also had a red face, but he lowered his head and didn't speak.
Uncle Lin walked up to Xiaohua and said with a smile: "Child, Xiao Jiang is a good person, except for no money, everything is fine, you are blessed with him." ”
Xiaohua smiled, then took out a handkerchief from the pocket inside her pants, opened the handkerchief, handed a stack of money to Uncle Lin's hand, and said, "Uncle, you can take as much as you can." ”
Uncle Lin looked at the handkerchief in Xiaohua's hand and stopped stretching out his hand.
The handkerchief is at best a thousand yuan, although in the eyes of the people in the city, this amount of money is nothing, but Xiaohua is so precious wrapped in a handkerchief, it is obviously not very rich, this scene really made Uncle Lin feel a little.
Uncle Lin took his hand back and said, "Child, you keep this money first, and give it to me when you have money." ”
"No, uncle, you take it, although the money is not much, I don't want to live in your house like this without giving money, you take it first." Xiaohua stuffed the money into Uncle Lin's hand.
Uncle Lin hesitated for a while, and finally took three hundred yuan and left.
After Uncle Lin left, Jiang Fei stood up and asked, "You are stupid, why did you help me pay?" ”
Xiaohua put away the handkerchief and said with a smile: "Brother Jiang helped me, then I will also contribute a little strength, so it can be regarded as peaceful." ”
Jiang Fei shrugged his shoulders and said, "It doesn't matter if you want to think like this, by the way, what are your plans next?" ”
"Let's find a job first, and then find a house to live in." Xiaohua said.
Jiang Fei touched his nose and said, "It's not easy to find a job in Yangcheng, and if you don't have the ability, you can only do some manual work." ”
Xiaohua smiled and said, "Brother Jiang, don't worry, I can do any job, but I really don't know how to look for the house, can you help me find it?" ”
Although Yangcheng is a fourth-tier city, there are also a few tourism projects, and the house price has been pulled up, and renting a smaller house will cost seven or eight hundred yuan, just now Jiang Fei glanced at the money taken out by Xiaohua, a total of only 1,000 yuan, and Uncle Lin took away 300, and the rest of the money cannot be rented at all.
Thinking of this, Jiang Fei looked at his room of less than ten square meters and said, "If you don't dislike it, just live here, I work during the day and only come back at night." ”
As soon as she heard this, Xiaohua almost jumped up with joy, the house was finally done, and she was very happy to be able to live with Jiang Fei.
"Thank you, Brother Jiang."
As a long-term person who has been doing tasks outside, he has been accustomed to living alone, and this time he suddenly has one more person and is a little uncomfortable, so he is in a hurry to go to work in the restaurant after instructing the precautions.
The restaurant is located opposite the Jiangfei residential community, because there is no modern community around, most of them are elderly, so there are very few people who come to eat.
As soon as Jiang Fei entered the door, he saw the boss sitting on the bench with a gloomy face.
"What's wrong with the boss?" Jiang Fei walked over and asked.
"Xiao Jiang came just in time, come and sit down and have something to tell you." The boss said.
Jiang Fei sat on the bench, as if he already knew what the other party was going to say.
"Hey, it's been really evil lately, business is surprisingly bad, look at how long it's been a long time since there have been customers here." The boss said in a complaining tone.
Jiang Fei nodded and said cooperatively: "Business is really not good these days." ”
"Yes, Xiao Jiang, I'll tell you the truth, my business is really cold, if you don't think of a way, we will both be finished." The boss said.
Jiang Fei was stunned, originally thought that he would definitely be fired if the business was not good, but the boss didn't have this idea.
This made Jiang Fei's heart hot.
"Xiao Jiang, we have to pull some business over, it's not a way to spend it like this." The boss said with a frown.
The boss is an honest man, his kung fu is quite average, and his cooking skills are also average, and it is difficult to retain guests, which makes Jiang Fei difficult for a while.
At this time, a guest came from outside the door, dressed in a suit and tie, and with short shiny hair, he looked quite energetic.
The guest looked at it for a while, then fixed his eyes on Jiang Fei, and said, "A bowl of shredded meat noodles." ”
There may have been no customers for a long time, but the boss jumped up and shouted excitedly, "Okay, here we are." With that, he ran into the kitchen.
Jiang Fei also stood up and walked up to the guests, pouring tea and saying with a smile: "Some noodles, come here to travel." ”
The guest nodded and smiled, and said, "Captain Jiang, don't come unharmed." ”