Chapter 213: Young and Loveless
Is Jiang Yingxue the same kind of person as her, Coriander decided not to think about it, anyway, she wants to be a bartender in Baiyuemen, and she will observe it slowly in the future.
Bo Xi said that she wanted to follow two shifts, first familiarize herself with the working environment and process, and then officially take up her post. The two shifts are completed over two nights, and each shift is paid half the normal daily wage.
Coriander is a budget-conscious, arranging two and a half on the same night, following the first half of the night's shift, followed by the second half of the night, the daily salary of this day can be calculated according to the normal, so that she can officially start work one day earlier and get an extra day's salary. It's nothing more than a little tighter time and a little more tired. Young people, there is a lot of energy and energy, and this amount of work is nothing at all.
Before that, Coriander had to solve the problem of food and housing.
She discussed with Coriander and found a house to live in in the residential area near Baiyue Gate. This is a land where every inch of land is valuable, and it is really not easy to find a house at the right price......
Early this morning, Coriander got up.
From the hotel, she wandered the streets somewhat aimlessly, and was unconsciously attracted by a billboard that broke into her sight.
The billboard on the side of the street is very similar to the one she saw when she was looking for a job last time, and the front and back of this billboard are also full of all kinds of information about the same city, such as unlocking and selling furniture and sharpening kitchen knives...... There is a lot of variety, you name it. The small advertising leaflet is full of pictures and texts, which is very vivid.
Coriander collected information about several houses for rent, remembered the contact information of the householder on the list, and then got into a nearby phone booth and called them one by one.
"Hello, I would like to ask about your house...... Someone has already rented it...... Oh, yes, that bothers you. ”
Coriander has been occupying the phone booth for a long time, causing impatience to a person waiting in line outside to call. The man "banged" on the door and window of the phone booth, and scolded angrily, "You're endless!" ”
Coriander turned her head to look. Only then did I find that there was a long queue outside the phone booth at some point, all waiting to use the phone, and a large number of people had obvious impatience on their faces.
Coriander Grass ended the call and went out of the phone booth. Leave from under the noses of a dry man.
Seeing the billboard on the side of the street again, Coriander somehow remembered Yan Song, who had been pestering her. Thinking of Yan Song, she thought of his Yihong Garden. There are so many empty rooms in Yihong Garden, and it is more than enough to stuff her and coriander. The rent in Yihong Garden is not expensive, but it is a little far from Baiyue Gate...... I thought of Yihong Garden. She thought of Ah Yun and Ah Kena's poor siblings again. Ah Yun is still in the prison in the patrol room and has not come out, and I don't know how Ake is doing alone......
Coriander felt a little pantothenic acid in her heart, blinked away the melancholy and helplessness in her eyes, she sighed lightly, and pulled her distant thoughts back. When she raised her eyes and saw an old man at a loss standing in front of the billboard, she almost stepped forward, and saw that the old man was holding a list that had just been smeared with paste, and her face was worried.
All kinds of advertising leaflets are densely pasted on the front and back of the billboard, and there is hardly a spare place to accommodate new bills.
The old man held the list and gestured up and down the billboard, worrying about where to post the list in his hand. If you tear off the advertising leaflets that others have worked so hard to put up, and then paste your own lists. That's too unethical.
"Eh, let's post somewhere else." The old man looked at the paste on the back of the list that was about to dry, and his eyes showed regret. It's a pity that he just borrowed the paste from a well-wisher, if he changes places, I don't know if he will meet such a kind-hearted person.
The old man whispered to himself as he put away the list. Before he could fold the advertising sheet in half, the list in his hand was taken away as soon as he swiped it.
Seeing this rental advertisement, coriander's eyes couldn't help but light up.
"Old man, do you want to rent out the house?"
The old man looked at the coriander, and was not angry that she took away the advertising leaflet. On the contrary, she was infected by the joy on her face, swept away the sadness and helplessness of Fang Cai, and smiled, and the folds on her face were as beautiful as flowers.
He said, "yes." An old friend of mine gave me a house in return for saving her life, and I am not used to living in a big house, and I can't take care of it alone......"
The man who repaid him must have been a rich man.
Eh, how come a good thing like giving a house didn't happen to her.
But this house is really amazing. Located on the side of East Street, it is exactly her ideal location, very close to Baiyue Gate.
"Old man, how much is the monthly rent of your house?" Coriander looked at the rental advertisement, which only wrote that the tenant was recruited, and did not indicate how much the monthly rent was.
The old man smiled and said, "My house is calculated on an annual basis," he raised his hand and pointed at the text on the rental bill, "It is very clearly written, no short-term rent, one year and two years."
"Bet one pay two, how much does it cost?"
In that place where every inch of land is at a premium, the rent of the house must not be cheap.
The old man hooked his index finger and said a number, "There are ninety oceans in total." ”
Coriander gasped and thought to herself, "It's really not cheap!"
Bet one and pay two, it costs ninety oceans, an average annual rent of thirty oceans, and then calculate, if you round it up, you will need three oceans per month. I'm rubbing, it's so expensive, if she wants to work in Baiyuemen, she won't be able to earn so much money in a month!
"It's so expensive......" Coriander suddenly felt that the rental advertising sheet in her hand was a little hot, and she was about to return the advertising sheet, but she heard the old man say:
"It's a little expensive, yes, my house is still ** new, you can move in directly without bringing anything, and the furniture is all ready." The old man said, and he was not in a hurry to get the results from the coriander, "Young man, if you don't like it, I'll take you to see my house, if you don't like it, you should run a few more steps to practice your legs and feet, if you like it, this price is still negotiable." ”
Cilantro thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay."
So, she followed the old man to the direction of East Street, and passed by Baiyue Gate on the way.
This also gave coriander the effort to take a good look at the old man.
While chatting on the way, they got to know each other for a while.
The old man's surname is Hu, and let coriander call him Uncle Hu.
Uncle Hu wore a black satin robe and horse coat, and his gray hair was covered in a melon skin hat. Ordinary people can't afford to wear clothes made of silk and satin, and they want to come to this Uncle Hu from a wealthy family.
Sure enough. Uncle Hu said that he was a land-sitting businessman who worked as a shopkeeper in a grain store. Note that in this era, operating in a fixed place. Only those with large stores can be called "shops", and small ones can only become "shops".
Years ago, his old friend was desperate and almost on the streets, and it was his help that made it through. After that old friend developed. didn't forget his kindness, and bought him a house in the prime location of Dragon City, and he couldn't get used to it. If you want to return the house to the original owner, they don't accept it, and the head of the house on the deed has filled in his name, so he is already the owner of the house. He thought that instead of leaving the house vacant, it would be better to rent it out.
Today, he found a scholar who wrote a good handwriting and made a rental advertisement, and before the list was posted, he met coriander. It can be regarded as fate in the dark.
Coriander didn't say much about herself, but said that their Lin brothers and sisters went to Shanghai to look for relatives and wanted to find a place to live for a long time and settle down.
Passing through a commercial street, passing through two alleys with archways, and going straight through a suddenly open cross atrium, and then turning a corner, Uncle Hu led the coriander to the ground.
The vermilion gate was tightly closed, and in front of it was an open and bright field, where a few children were laughing and dancing under a few trees by the opposite wall.
Uncle Hu took out the key and opened the door.
Coriander followed Uncle Hu in. After entering the door, he stepped into an alley. She exclaimed again and again in her heart, this matter is a mansion, a mansion!
This alley is very spacious. She could imagine that every day Coriander would come back after pulling the car, parking the rickshaw he loved to put down in this alley that could shelter from the wind and rain.
Walking out of the alley, there is a slightly empty courtyard. The sun is just right at the moment. It is sprinkled all over the courtyard, adding a lot of bright colors to the whole house.
The large house sits on the north and faces south, which is convenient for lighting. On either side of the yard are the barns and the kitchen. The warehouse looks bigger than the kitchen, and it was originally used to store grain, and Uncle Hu ran a grain store after all. Since the warehouse was opened at the back of the grain store, he moved all the grain hoarded in the house to the grain store.
Entered the big house. The furnishings inside are not luxurious, but luxurious. Sure enough, as Uncle Hu said, there is everything in furniture.
A rectangular mahogany coffee table sits in front of a large bright window, and three wooden bench sofas will enclose the coffee table together with the large window. The large living room is separated by a hollowed-out pear blossom wood screen to create a small but delicate dining room. There are two rooms on the first floor, one is a study and one is a bedroom. Upstairs, although there is a lot of space, there is only one bedroom. Each room is well furnished, and if the coriander and coriander move in, there is no need to prepare anything else at all.
This mansion made Cilantro's heart beat faster, and she decided that she must take this mansion down!
She didn't show this satisfaction too much, she knew that the more obvious she was, but when she negotiated the price, maybe the old man would not lower the price.
Such a location, such a house, thirty oceans per Chinese New Year's Eve is really not expensive. That is, Uncle Hu is kind and kind-hearted, has his own livelihood, and is not very interested in money, and finally agreed to rent the house to coriander for two years at a price of 29 yuan a year.
Bet one and pay two, after the coriander signed the lease, he had to pay Uncle Hu eighty-seven yuan of the ocean. The lease was drawn up by Coriander and Uncle Hu while discussing in the study, and Coriander had no cash on him, so he ordered a silver ticket of 87 yuan.
In addition to the two-year rent, there is also a deposit of twenty-nine yuan, and after the lease expires, Uncle Hu does not have to return the full amount to coriander. During the period when the Lin family brothers and sisters lived, there was also some damage in the house, which had to be deducted from the deposit.
After negotiating, after paying the money, Coriander got the key to the house from Uncle Hu. After separating from Uncle Hu, Coriander excitedly took the key and the lease to the hotel to find coriander. And Uncle Hu took the lease that had not been long in ink, and after going out, he turned a corner and went against the coriander, and got into a classic car with a red top and a white body.
Uncle Hu handed over the lease to someone in the car, "As you wish, everything is done." ”
Xiaobei, who was driving in the position, looked back at someone.
The moment I got the lease, looking at the handwriting on it, it was like a wish that had been lingering in my heart for a long time, and the tired face with a sick face finally stretched out slightly, and the eyebrows and eyes were full of gentle smiles.
Fujihiko was reluctant to take his eyes off the lease written by Cilantro, and his eyes lingered on her name for a long time.
He didn't raise his eyes, and said to Uncle Hu, "Grandpa Hu, thank you." ”
If it weren't for the heartfelt words of his thanksgiving, Uncle Hu would really have to discuss with him what it means to "respect the elders".
"Eh," Uncle Hu suddenly sighed, looking at Fuji Yantang, whose face was very bad, worried, anxious and helpless, "This time you should go home and recuperate, you are not a small person, and you will be worried about your grandmother all day long!" ”
That's right, the old friend of Uncle Hu's kindness back then was Fuji Yantang's grandmother.
"You also said that I am the eldest and not a small person, and I should worry about my life's affairs, and my grandmother has been urging me to meet with this lady every day and go on a blind date with that yellow flower girl. Why do you think I don't like to go home some time ago, I'm just afraid that she will bother me. ”
That's good, after listening to the old one complaining to him, the younger one is complaining to him again. Uncle Hu wasn't annoyed, he just felt strange at the moment, "Although the house is in my name, in the end it was also given to me by your Fuji family, you asked me to come forward and rent the house to the girl named coriander, you are hiding behind, why don't you let her know that you are helping her?" ”
Fujihikodo's eyes darkened, his expression sank, and his face seemed to get worse. Only then did he put away the lease, put it in his pocket, looked at the direction of the Hu family's house through the car window for a while, and was silent for a while before he said slowly: "That child is good at everything, but she has great emotional defects, she has joys and sorrows, but she has no common sense and feeling of love, even if someone says in front of her that she likes her and loves her, she is indifferent." Because of her, as long as you don't provoke her except her brother, she will treat you equally...... I want to take my time. ”
Uncle Hu hadn't known coriander for a long time, and he didn't know much about her, but when he talked to her, he didn't find that coriander had the same defects as Fujiyantang said. However, Fujihiko said this, and he was not incomprehensible.
"That kid is only fifteen or sixteen years old now, and when she's your age, she'll worry about the kind of things you're worried about now. But that's five or six years later, and your grandmother ......."
Before Uncle Hu could finish speaking, Fuji Yantang interrupted him, "Grandpa Hu, my grandmother called me a few days ago to complain about losing your money in playing cards." ”
How could Uncle Hu not know that he was changing the subject, and sighed helplessly, "Eh, since you have determined it, then I don't care about you." I still have a game, so I won't accompany you. ”
Uncle Hu got out of the car and left, and when his figure disappeared around the corner of the alley, Fuji Yantang also ordered Xiaobei to drive away. (To be continued.) )