Chapter 30 Rent for Five Years (Ask for Recommendation Collection)
The façade of the shop is very large, only about seven or eight steps wide, and it is close to the façade on the left and right, which is also the norm on this street, after all, the street is not long, and everyone wants to open the façade on the side of the street, so it forms this kind of small façade that is very compact one by one.
However, although the shop is not wide, it is very deep, which makes the inside of the shop more like a wider corridor, and the whole shop is empty, not even a chair, as if it has been ransacked.
"This turned out to be a cloth village, you know what happened before, I won't hide it from you, this man has a bad character, owes a lot of money to a merchant, you said if there is no money, it's just that, but he doesn't pay back the money, as a result, one day the merchant got drunk and asked for money, under the dispute between the two sides, the merchant killed their whole family with the strength of wine, and where we stood, the furniture was full of blood, it was too miserable, so I all let people move to the back yard, if you want to use it, you can use it, if you don't want to use it, you will burn it." Shopkeeper Li said helplessly at this time.
"Good and evil will be rewarded in the end, and this man also died by himself, but he pitied his wife and children, and all of them were affected by him." Lu Wu also sighed at this time and said, this place is close to Kaifeng Mansion, so the case is handled by Kaifeng Mansion, but he has heard others mention it, so he also knows the case.
"Lu Bantou, the really pitiful person is me, their family is clean when they die, but the yard I bought with so much work has suddenly become a murderous house, I originally planned to point to it for the elderly, but now it's all over!" Shopkeeper Li heard Lu Wu's words, but he said with a sad face.
Li shopkeeper is the shopkeeper of a nearby restaurant, but there is another owner behind the restaurant, he just helps others to manage, equivalent to the professional manager of later generations, and earns a lot, bought a yard in Kaifeng, and moved the family over, this yard is the rent he fancied here a few years ago, so he spent a lot of money to buy, planning to live by eating rent when he is old, but he didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing, so his hair was gray during this time.
Li Zhang walked from the front to the back, estimated the area of this shop, but it was similar to what the shopkeeper Li said, out of the back door turned out to be a small kitchen, beyond the kitchen is the back yard, of course, this yard is also very narrow and long, the innermost pile of miscellaneous furniture, some of the furniture really has dark brown blood stains.
"Let's go upstairs and have a look!" At this moment, Lu Wu also walked over, and then pulled Li Zhang up to the second floor, the second floor is the bedroom, when Li Zhang stepped on the forbidden stairs upstairs, he found that the bedroom was divided into two parts, inside and outside, and all kinds of furniture were also very complete, and even the clothes of the previous family were stacked on the ground, and it seemed that Li Zhang's shopkeeper had not had time to clean up.
"This second floor is clean, the murder only happened on the first floor, I originally planned to clean up all the things here, and then find a way to rent it out after a while, but Lu Bantou found someone to contact me and said that I wanted to rent here, so I didn't have time to clean it up, most of the things here are still good, and the dead family has no relatives, and the family's money has also been taken by the yamen to give them funeral expenses, so if you want it, keep it, and throw it away if you don't want it." At this time, I saw that the shopkeeper Li also followed up and introduced again.
"Da Lang, what do you think?" Lu Wu asked Li Zhang's opinion again at this time.
"Yes, if the price is right, you can rent it!" When Li Zhang said this, he also looked at the shopkeeper Li with a smile.
"I've already lowered the price to this point, look at this whole street, is there any cheaper shop than here?" Shopkeeper Li naturally understood what Li Zhang meant, and said with a distressed expression at the moment.
"But there has never been a tragedy in other people's shops!" Lu Wu opened his mouth to help at this time.
"Lu Bantou, our family also has to eat, and my health has not been very good in the past two years, it is estimated that this shopkeeper will not be able to work for long, plus several children in the family are not successful, if there is no such shop, then our family will have to go out to eat!" Shopkeeper Li directly opened his mouth at this time and cried poorly, worthy of being a businessman, in the end, his eyes were about to flow out, and he could tell a lie to the point that he even believed himself, no wonder he could achieve the position of the shopkeeper.
"Shopkeeper Li, we were a family five hundred years ago, and I'll be honest with you, if you insist on ten times a year's rent, it's not impossible, but you must promise me a condition!" At this moment, Li Zhang suddenly smiled again and said.
"On what terms?" Shopkeeper Li also found that among the people in this group of Lu Wu, the most difficult to deal with was this thin young man, although Lu Wu was shrewd, but after all, he was not a businessman, he didn't know much about business matters, and it was not difficult to fool him, but the young man in front of him made him feel like he couldn't see through.
"Ten times a year, I want to rent for five years!" Li Zhang said his conditions with a smile.
"No way!" The shopkeeper Li almost did not hesitate to refuse when he heard Li Zhang's conditions, although it is not easy to rent out the shop now because it has become a murderous house, but he has already planned it, and he can rent it out at a low price in the past two years, so that the shop can maintain its popularity, but when the two years pass, most people will forget about the murder case, and then he can raise the price, if according to Li Zhang's conditions, the price cannot be raised within five years, then he will lose.
"Shopkeeper Li, you don't have an attitude of doing business, I have taken a step back, but you are not giving in, how can you talk about this?" Li Zhang deliberately made a dissatisfied expression and said.
"But...... But your condition is too harsh, I can only let you rent for two years at most, if you still want to rent in the third year, we have to negotiate again! Shopkeeper Li said with a headache at this time, he found that he was not mistaken, this young man is indeed not easy to deal with.
"For three years, I will raise the price for you five times a year for the next two years, and after five years, if I still want to rent, you will have to rent to me at the same price!" Li Zhang bargained again at the moment, he actually knew the plan of the shopkeeper Li for a long time, and it was obviously impossible for the other party not to increase the price for five years, so he simply fought for the first three years, and took the initiative to increase the price for the other party in the fourth year, after all, he was also quite satisfied with this shop.
"This ......" Shopkeeper Li hesitated again at this time, and then finally patted his thigh and said, "That's it, according to what you said, five years is five years!" ”
In fact, the shopkeeper Li did not suffer a loss, according to Li Zhang's proposal, the rent rose to fifteen in the fourth year, and the fifth year was twenty, although he originally planned to increase the rent in the second year, but the murderous house is a murderous house after all, and he is not sure that this influence will be completely eliminated, so the increase in the past few years is limited, and it is not easy to change tenants, so he will agree to Li Zhang's proposal.
"Good! Then let's make a note! Li Zhang immediately spoke again, and now the shopkeeper Li smiled bitterly again, he was really convinced by Li Zhang, where is this meticulous mind a teenager, he is simply an old fox who has been rolling in the mall for many years, and even the last bit of a gap has been blocked, and it is impossible for him to regret it in the future.
However, the shopkeeper Li is also a cheerful person, since he agreed to Li Zhang, he immediately went to the store next to him to borrow paper and pen, and then wrote two notes, and the two signed and signed respectively, and Lu Wu was a Chinese person, that is, a witness, and then the two kept the notes separately.
"Brother Li, the note has been signed, when do you think you will bring the first year's rent over?" Shopkeeper Li asked with a smile again at this time.
"The day after tomorrow, we will clean up the house tomorrow, move over the day after tomorrow, and open the door to do business in a few days, and then ask Shopkeeper Li to enjoy his face!" Li Zhang smiled again at the moment, tomorrow he plans to go to the side of the earth mountain where the divine bird is located, so it will definitely be too late, but he can move over the day after tomorrow, and then he can plan the business of braised meat.
"Brother Li is really a cheerful person, but what business are you going to do?" Shopkeeper Li suddenly realized that he had forgotten to ask a question in a hurry, but he couldn't be blamed for this, because Li Zhang didn't give him a chance to ask after he came in.
"A small business, called braised meat, is actually a kind of cooked meat, if Shopkeeper Li is interested, you can come and try it, and you can taste it for free on the opening day." Li Zhang smiled again at the moment.
"Cooked meat? However, there are already two cooked meat shops on this street, and both of them are more than ten years old, so it may not be easy for you to make money by selling cooked meat. "Shopkeeper Li reminded him out of kindness, after all, he is also a restaurant, and he is very familiar with the business of cooked meat.
"Thank you Shopkeeper Li for reminding me, but my braised meat is different from ordinary cooked meat, and you will know when you taste it." Li Zhang was full of confidence at this time, when he was on the street just now, he had already noticed that there were two cooked meat shops, but these two shops sold mutton, and the price was not cheap, but the braised pork made by Li Zhang was mainly low-grade pork, so there was little conflict with the business of those two stores.
Seeing that Li Zhang was so confident, the shopkeeper Li did not persuade him at the moment, after all, the two parties are only the relationship between the tenant and the landlord, and there is no need to say too much, so he smiled again and said that he must be cheering on the opening day, and then handed over the key to the shop to Li Zhang and left, anyway, with Lu Wu as a guarantor, he was not afraid that Li Zhang would run away.
Li Zhang didn't stay in Kaifeng City for a long time, but after buying some food and snacks, he said goodbye to Lu Wu and left, because Lu Wu still had to go to Yamen to deal with the two thieves caught this morning, so Li Zhang's brothers and sisters and wild dogs went back by themselves, anyway, they also knew the way.
When Li Zhang told them the good news that the shop had been rented, the ugly girl and the others also jumped and jumped happily, and when the raccoon dog took out the food snacks on the back of the wild dog, the children screamed and scrambled, of course, they did not forget to leave a copy of the beans.
After the ugly girl was happy, Li Zhang told them to pack up their things and prepare to move, but he quietly prepared something, planning to go to the location of the divine bird tomorrow no matter what!