Chapter 34: Bargaining
"Lao Zhang! I'm the old king, the buyer is coming, open the door quickly! The old king went up to call the door, and the door opened, and out came an old man with messy hair and a haggard face, who should be the owner of this house.
"What's it called, didn't I come, you want to buy a house?" Lao Zhang glanced at Ye Fan up and down, Ye Fan was dressed very ordinary, and he didn't look like a rich man.
"Old Wangtou, are you fooling me?" Lao Zhang looked at the old king and said.
"You and I have known each other for many years, how could I play tricks on you, even if my brother wants to buy a house, this is still for my sake, otherwise I won't even look at your place!" The old king's words invisibly raised Ye Fan a little.
"Since you bought a house, did you bring any money?" Lao Zhang spoke very directly, and he couldn't stand it directly, and before he entered the door, he asked if he had brought any money.
"Ahem, please rest assured, Brother Zhang, the money must be enough, but you have to let me go in and see the house first, right?"
"Come in!" Lao Zhang saw that Ye Fan did have the sincerity to buy a house, not like he was playing his own tricks and let Ye Fan in. The house is indeed good, three in and three out of the small courtyard, there is a willow tree planted in the center of the courtyard, this willow tree has a hug thick, it seems that this should be planted when Li Hongzhang lived.
Under the willow tree is a stone table, surrounded by four round stools. Looking at the main hall again, the plague of this family is not what it looks like, the walls and doors are full of dust, and the kitchen is not very good, it can be seen that this family is not very diligent.
"This house is okay, if it weren't for my uncompetitive son who was caught stealing things by the police, and asked us to make money to make acquaintances, the old man would not have fallen into the family property handed down by selling his ancestors!" Lao Zhang said helplessly.
Ye Fan felt wrong when he heard this, when he was outside just now, the old Wang Tou said that this house was built by Li Hongzhang back then, and later when the Huai army withdrew, it became a residential area, how could it become an ancestral inheritance in his mouth.
"I don't think it's right, didn't this house be built by Li Hongzhang and Master Li back then, when did it become the ancestral heirloom of your family? Could it be that your family's original surname was Li? Ye Fan asked casually.
"Huh?"
Lao Zhangtou was stunned, he didn't expect Ye Fan to even know these things, he couldn't help but look at the old Wang Tou, and the old Wang Tou hurriedly tilted his head and followed Ye Fan into the back room. It doesn't matter if you don't enter, this one was almost smoked to death by the smell inside, is this still a place where people live? It's not even as good as a pig's nest, a small bed is placed in the corner, and there is a black quilt bed stacked together on the small bed, and the quilt cover has long been unable to see what color it is.
Maybe it's an antique handed down from the former Qing Dynasty, there is nothing under the bed, there is a night pot, there is mahjong, and a big smoking gun, no wonder this old man is so haggard, he should smoke a big cigarette.
Seeing this, Ye Fan's impression of this old man was extremely bad, and he really doubted whether he would save his son or buy tobacco after selling the money. "Let's go out and talk, or we may be in danger of suffocation if we continue to stay here." Ye Fan walked quickly to the courtyard and quickly took a breath of fresh air.
"Brother Ye! Why is this old man so unhygienic! It smells bad, do you still want this place? Fluttershy says with a snort and a frown.
Originally, I didn't want to be here, but the environment here is so poor, it just gave myself a reason to bargain, it is impossible to sell this broken place for two oceans, and Ye Fan will not often live here in the future, what if he can't sell it and smash it in his own hands? Ye Fan sat on the stone bench, exactly four people and four stools, and it was much better to talk outside than in the house.
"I don't know how this brother looks, I'm not satisfied with the small courtyard!"
Satisfied? Can you still talk about satisfaction here? In addition to the fact that the person who built this house is more famous, what else can be called satisfying here, you are purely feeling good about yourself!
"It's really good overall, it's enough for this house to be demolished and used as a pigsty!" Ye Fan said.
"Poof!"
Hearing Ye Fan's words, Fluttershy couldn't help but almost laugh out loud for a moment, but fortunately she covered her mouth in time.
was said by Ye Fan, and Lao Zhang's face was also embarrassed. "It's all because the old man doesn't usually pay attention to it, so it's okay, in order to compensate you, I am fifty less for you, how about asking you for one thousand and fifty?"
However, Ye Fan was not satisfied with the price.
"No, no, no, how can this work, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for, do business is realistic, you look at what this house looks like by you, and this smell, can smoke a big living person to death, and this wall, I have to find someone to decorate it again, and these various expenses add up to probably not one or two hundred can't be beaten."
was said by Ye Fan, Lao Zhang felt that what he said was also true, although he didn't know how to count, it seems that what Ye Fan just said is indeed quite troublesome, and it should be very troublesome to deal with it when the time comes, right?
"Then you can tell me the number!"
Ye Fan stretched out two fingers unhurriedly and said. "You have to give me at least two hundred dollars cheaper!"
"What! Two hundred! This doesn't work, no, no! How much does this house sell for, and if you want me to give you 200 yuan cheaper, you can just grab it! ”
Ye Fan was not angry when he heard this, it could be judged from his expression and tone that this was not yet the lowest price in his heart, and it was still within the range he could bear, and what he had to do was to continue to push down the price until it reached his lowest price.
"Lao Zhang, this is your mistake, you should know your house, look at this appearance, can you still live in it?"
"Why can't you live, haven't I always lived here?" Lao Zhang's confidence in saying this was a little insufficient, and it was obvious that Ye Fan was right, and he really couldn't live anymore, otherwise he wouldn't be in a hurry to sell the house and move out.
"Humph! It's not that I'm talking about you, you can go out and inquire, any house better than yours won't sell for such a high price, unless it's a donkey kicking in the head! ”
"I said brother, you can't say that, every location is different, and my location here is obviously much better than theirs." "Really? So how does it compare to Puxi's! Being forced by Ye Fan to ask like this, Lao Zhanggan opened his mouth and couldn't speak, it seems that the price will not work if it is not reduced, this kid does not look big, but his eloquence is good.
"Okay, listen to you, I'll give you 200 yuan, collect 1,000 yuan for you, let's make friends, what do you think?" Sure enough, he relented, but Ye Fan wouldn't stop there.
"No, no, I just found some more serious problems."
"What's the problem?" Lao Zhang asked. "Excuse me, do you have a title deed?"
"Title deeds?"
Lao Zhang was asked by Ye Fan this time, he has lived here for decades, when have I heard of such a thing as a real estate certificate, it doesn't matter if there is such a thing as a real estate certificate, often six out of ten houses are unlicensed, in this troubled world, it is already very good to be able to save his own life, where can I manage these things, sometimes I often get a certificate today, and the house burns in the war the next day, this is just a means that Ye Fan uses to bargain.
"Nope!"
"No certificate! How can this work! What if some ruffians come to blackmail me for a house, and when the time comes, I can't show evidence to prove that this house is mine in front of the police, won't it be troublesome! ”
"This kind of thing has been lived here for decades, and he has never encountered it?"
"That's not right for you, just because you haven't met it doesn't mean it won't happen, you have also seen it, I'm just a child who has just grown up, in case I meet those strong men who are five big and three thick, if I fight it, I will suffer, if I don't see people in this place, ghosts don't see ghosts, I am beaten to death, then wouldn't there even be no one to collect the body?"