After Zhang Xu found an open space to park the car, we went to the store together. The shopkeeper received us, and after Zhang Xu bargained with the shopkeeper, we bought everything we should buy.

After moving into the car, we went back to the store. According to my thoughts, wait until Zhang Xu is resting on Sunday, because it is too late, and no matter how cold it is, it will not be bad for these two days. But Zhang Xu was anxious to settle down early, because he was still thinking about separating the room on Sunday.

But just as we wanted to install the stove, the landlord walked in. I hurriedly greeted: "You're here big brother?" ”

"yes." The landlord replied. When Zhang Xu saw the landlord coming, he didn't say anything but nodded to him.

At this time, the landlord asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"It's cold, and I want to have a stove. I wanted to tell you or the eldest sister, but I haven't seen you in the past two days. I said.

When the landlord heard me, he said, "You can't have a stove." ”

"Why can't you be safe?" Before I could answer, Zhang Xu asked the landlord, obviously because he was not happy after listening to what the landlord said, so he asked in such a hurry. I heard Zhang Xu's tone not very good, and I knew that he was angry, but I was afraid that he would make things stiff, and things would not be easy to handle in the future. So while the landlord didn't see it, he secretly gave him a look.

When Zhang Xu saw me giving him a look, he pretended not to see it.

"Didn't you smoke the house with the stove?" The landlord continued Zhang Xu's words.

"Didn't I tell you all before? Didn't you say you could? Why can't it be done now? Besides, it's not just us who burns the stove, isn't the one you rent out selling cosmetics also burning the stove? Why aren't you afraid that they will smoke the house? Zhang Xu's voice not only did not ease at all, but was even a little angry. I was secretly worried when I heard this. The more this is the case, the harder it is to speak, isn't it? But the words have already been spoken, and there is nothing else I can say.

Hearing what Zhang Xu said, the landlord didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what he was doing. He said: "It was because they burned the stove that I found out that the walls were smoked, but they were already burned, and I have no way to say anything. That's why I saw it and came to inform you.

Actually, I was quite angry when I heard the landlord say this. This is obviously unreasonable, and I am looking for trouble. But Zhang Xu's temper was not too good, and I couldn't add fuel to the fire. If you really quarrel over something like this, it's really not good.

I'm afraid that Zhang Xu will say something else ugly. So he said to the landlord: "Big brother, look, it's cold, let's open a store, if you don't let us keep warm, then how can we open this store?" I thought I'd say that the landlord wouldn't be so unkind.

But what I didn't expect was that the landlord was also an unreasonable person. After listening to my words, he said, "Then I don't care, that's your business, not mine, and I can't control it." This sentence made me, a man with no temper, want to quarrel with him. But I still suppressed the anger in my heart.

"That's right, let's be uneasy today, you also go back and discuss with your eldest sister to see if we can think of another way. Think of a solution that is acceptable to all of us. I said.

At this time, Zhang Xu said again: "You are making things difficult for us, if this is the case, then how can our store be opened?" ”

"I'm not trying to make things difficult for you, I'm telling the truth. It hasn't been long since we built this house, and if you smoke it, then I won't lose the money I rent to you? ”

As soon as I heard what the landlord said, I thought to myself, sure enough, the landlord is as Zhang Xu said, looking at the business in our store, it is okay, so he wants to raise the rent for us, but there is no way to say it, so he did it.

In fact, we have always had work in the store, but we can't make much money, not much more than our salary. This is because of the need to remove expenses such as rent and electricity bills. If he really raises his salary, then he really might as well go to work. It's a bit busier and less free, but it's good that you don't have to worry about it. So each has its own shortcomings. Each has its own advantages.

"So what do you think we're going to do?" Zhang Xu asked the landlord.

"You can use the electric heater." The landlord said.

When the landlord said this, Zhang Xu and I both understood. The landlord wants us to use electricity and heating, which is obviously trying to calculate us on the electricity bill. Because his electricity meter is used for civilian electricity. Civilian electricity is less than five cents. But to open the store, he asked us for seven cents. He earns us two cents a piece for that electric word, and if I use electric heating for a house as big as mine, then I have to have enough less electricity?

I didn't speak after listening to it, but Zhang Xu got angry: "If you let us use electric heating, then we don't have to make money." What else are we doing with this store? Wouldn't it be okay to just give you the money? It's not enough to earn a little money every day to pay your electricity bills. ”

"Then you can figure it out yourself, I don't have a trick. Anyway, if you want to burn the stove, I can't let you burn it. You're still afraid of electricity when you open a store. Then our house is afraid of being blackened. You can't just think about yourself, can you? Besides, the electricity bill is not given to us, don't we also buy it? Your electricity is my general meter, and the total meter is still losing to you. The landlord actually told his reason.

When I heard it, I really regretted that I didn't include heating in the first place when I wrote the rental agreement. It seems that inexperience in anything is a disadvantage. Since I had never rented a house before, how would I have thought that this would happen next?

Now seeing Zhang Xu arguing with the landlord with a red face and a thick neck, he can't fight for any result for a while. I knew that the landlord wanted to make more money on us to make it difficult for us. But you can't just keep arguing like this. I can't figure it out today.

Thinking of this, I said, "Well, don't quarrel with any of you yet, let's go home and think about it first." Big brother, you also go back and think about it. Let's see if we can come up with a way to get the best of both worlds. We'll talk about it in two days on Sunday. If we can't reach an agreement by then, then let's be honest, big brother, we really can't rent this house anymore. As Zhang Xu said, if we really use electricity and heating, the money we earn is really not enough to pay the electricity bill. ”

When I said this, the landlord said, "Okay, let's talk about this in two days." Wait until Sunday, we'll see if we can solve it. In fact, to be honest, I rent this house and you all rent less, and you are buying and selling so well now, even if it is how much can you use to burn electric heating? It's not enough to say that you don't make money, right? ”

It seems that the landlord really wants to get some money out of us. Because we haven't opened the store for a year, he is embarrassed to raise the rent, so he wants to come this way. Otherwise, it's because Zhang Xu hasn't talked to them much these days. Anyway, it doesn't seem like it's going to be easy.

"Okay, then we'll go back today, and we'll talk about it then." I'm afraid that Zhang Xu will be angry and quarrel with the landlord again. So I can only go home first and then find a way.