Out of the police station, Geng Chaozhong began to lead Fang Zhitong aimlessly, although he has been in the island city for more than a month, but Geng Chaozhong's scope of activities is limited to the two streets of Zhongshan Road and Sifang Road, and he has never been to other places at all, this time he plans to let Fang Zhitong, a native, take a good stroll.

The two of them chatted while walking, familiarizing themselves with each other's situation, after all, they will be brothers in the future, if they don't even know what brothers like and don't like, what kind of favor and hatred they have, how to be brothers.

It turned out that Fang Zhitong was a distant relative of the city police chief, because his family was in the middle of the road, he didn't study again after finishing high school, and he came to Zhu Muyun to be a small patrol officer under the command of Zhu Muyun because of the relationship of the director. However, this guy didn't read well, but he read stupidly, he had no power to tie his hands, he didn't have any skills, he didn't know how to smoke or drink, and he was naturally not welcomed when he came to the police station. Although he has been here for more than a month, there is still no one to take him to play, except for duty, he usually nests there alone to write and draw.

Of course, these situations were not said by Fang Zhitong himself, but after a few words, Geng Chaozhong guessed eight or nine. Thinking of this, Geng Chaozhong couldn't help but regret a little, this guy is really useless, but now he is also alone, so it's better than nothing.

Unknowingly, Geng Chaozhong led Fang Zhitong to the door of Xinshengtai shoe store, and when he saw Xinshengtai, Geng Chaozhong thought that he still had something to do - looking for a house. But now there is only a piece of ocean on his body, so he wondered if he would ask Lao Zhao to borrow a few more pieces, but this morning he fell out with Lao Zhao on the surface, and it was too inappropriate to go in now, after thinking about it, Geng Chaozhong decided to ask Fang Zhitong first.

"By the way, Xiao Fang, you are a local, you must know where to rent a house cheaply, some time ago I have been staying at the shoe store Lao Zhao, a dead ghost, and I haven't lived yet, if you know, take me to see it."

Fang Zhitong looked embarrassed, and thought for a long time before saying: "The houses in the neighborhood are not cheap, and it will cost at least eighty yuan to rent it for a year, and even a cheaper single room will cost forty yuan." If you want to be cheap, you have to go out. ”

The gap between the houses in old China is very large, there are not only the 700 oceans of a year house rented by Hu Shi in Shanghai, but also the board houses in the slums according to the copper plate, and the specific price depends entirely on the location. Especially during the war, the houses in the concession will be speculated to sky-high prices!

Because at that time, it was not just about buying a house, but about safety!

Eighty oceans! Geng Chaozhong secretly cursed in his heart, he only had a piece of ocean in his body, and he couldn't even afford to rent it for a week, it seems that he still don't think about renting a house, it's still a chase shop in an honest residence! However, he still saved a little luck, so he asked again: "How much does it cost to go out in a cheap single room?" “

"Further out, you can only go north, Tianjin Road can be cheaper, and a single room is about 30 yuan a year."

"Further north?"

"Further north is Jinan Road, where the house is much cheaper, fifteen yuan a year is enough."

Geng Chaozhong sighed, sure enough, it has been the same from ancient times to the present, the closer to the sea, the more expensive the house, you must know that the island city is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and only to the north is a large piece of land, so the house price is gradually decreasing from south to north.

"Is there a lower .......?" Geng Chaozhong asked almost by inertia.

"Lower." Fang Zhitong also fell into deep thought, and after a long while, he spoke: "There are lower ones, but ......."

"But what, if you have something to say, you can fart quickly, I have never seen such an unhappy policeman as you." Geng Chaozhong was also a little impatient when he asked.

"There are cheap houses on Liaocheng Road and Market 2nd Road, ten yuan a year, but the people living there are Japanese, it depends on whether you dare to go!" Fang Zhitong's face was flushed by Geng Chaozhong's foul words, and he spoke quickly.

Japanese? It stands to reason that the houses that Japanese live in should be more expensive! How can it be cheaper? Geng Chaozhong hurriedly continued to ask Fang Zhitong for advice.

It turned out that from 1914 to 1922, when the Japanese occupied the island city, a large number of immigrants to Qingdao reached 100,000 at the peak, and most of them gathered near Liaocheng Road and Market 2nd Road. In 28 years, the Republic of China recovered Qingdao, the Japanese diaspora was afraid of the Chinese's retaliation, a large number of houses were sold back to China, many houses were empty, under vicious competition, the rent is getting cheaper and cheaper, but the average Chinese are really unwilling to run there to rent and buy a house, after all, I don't know when the Japanese will come back, when the time comes, maybe a word will take the house back, compensation? According to the urine nature of the Japanese, it is simply impossible, so a large number of houses over there are vacant, and the rent is pitiful.

"Let's go, let's go to Liaocheng Road!" As soon as he heard that there were actually ten houses below the ocean, which was about more than 1,000 yuan, Geng Chaozhong's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately pulled Fang Zhitong in the direction of Liaocheng Road.

"Well, big brother, can I ask how much money you have?" Fang Zhitong couldn't help but be very curious when he saw Geng Chaozhong being so anxious.

"A piece of ocean."

“........”

Liaocheng Road is about three kilometers away from Zhongshan Road, and Geng Chaozhong and Fang Zhitong walked for about half an hour before arriving at their destination.

Standing on Liaocheng Road, the sound of Japanese clogs is everywhere, just like arriving in Japan, so this place is also called "Japan Street". The area around Liaocheng Road (known as Nakano Town during the Japanese occupation) was a commercial place for the Japanese during the Japanese occupation, and the whole street was full of Japanese companies and merchants, and the common language was also Japanese, which was almost a typical country within a country.

Such a state within a state is also commonplace in Shanghai and Tianjin, and they have a unified name - Concession.

Although the Republic of China has nominally canceled the concession of the island city, after the Japanese marines landed in the island city under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese last year and caused the May Day tragedy in Jinan, Liaocheng Road still maintains complete independence and is still a de facto concession - after being beaten and killed, they can't fight back and dare not retaliate, which is the sorrow of a weak country.

Geng Chaozhong walked on the street of Jimo Road, listening to the Japanese in his ears, looking at the Japanese-style two-story or three-story buildings around him, and there was an indescribable sadness in his heart. Fortunately, in the era when he was born, the era when the great powers could arbitrarily bully the Chinese by putting a few cannons on the bow of the ship is gone. So at this time, Geng Chaozhong was able to watch all this with a relatively calm attitude. However, whether it is a past life or a present life, as long as it is a place for Chinese, you must take it back with your own hands.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Geng Chaozhong began to inquire one by one in the residential area to see if there was any homestay to rent. I found that there are a lot of houses, and many houses have hung up the sign of "リース (rent)", ,——for the Japanese, after all, it is empty and empty, and it is a little bit to catch a little. And Fang Zhitong next to him has been chattering:

"Brother, you only have a piece of the ocean, even if it's cheap, you can't afford to rent it!"

"Xiao Fang, is your surname Fang also Fang's head? I can pay for one month first, and then pay for the next month after the salary is paid! ”

"What if people don't want to?"

"With your eldest brother and my charisma, how could they not be willing? Remember, after finding your target for a while, you hide and watch mine. ”