"No, Chief Tomioka, this is the house you found for me?" Cao Zhiqiang looked at this somewhat familiar building and subconsciously frowned.

"yes, that's the house I found for you." Nobuo Tomioka smiled, "According to your requirements, it is the most qualified house for the house here." ”

"No other choice?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Nobuo Tomioka shook his head with a smile: "Cao San, renting a house is not so simple, it doesn't mean that if you want to rent a house, you can rent it immediately."

What's more, you have to ask for a lot and the price is right, this is already the best house I can find at the moment.

Besides, we are here, the landlord has made an appointment, and they are all waiting for us to come to the door, and it doesn't seem good if we don't go now.

Why don't you go with me first and talk about it if you're not satisfied, okay? ”

As soon as he heard the other party say this, Cao Zhiqiang didn't say anything, just nodded lightly.

However, after Cao Zhiqiang followed Nobuo Tomioka to the third floor, his expression finally changed after seeing a familiar house number.

That's right, room 3301, near the stairs, is the house where Akina Nakamori lives.

Cao Zhiqiang came last time, and it hasn't been a few days in the past, so he is quite familiar with this place.

Fortunately, Nobuo Tomioka did not stop in front of room 3301, but continued to walk forward until he reached the back of room 3302 next door, and then stopped and rang the doorbell.

"Mrs. Matsumoto!" Nobuo Tomioka, who rang the doorbell, said loudly, "I'm Mr. Tomioka, who contacted you before, and I'm bringing someone to see the house now." ”

Soon, a young woman's voice came from inside: "Please wait, I'll be right away." ”

Soon, the door opened, and a woman in her early thirties with a height of a little more than one meter and a half, who looked very ordinary, but was dressed very exquisitely, wore gold and silver, and looked very good at a glance.

Seeing the woman appear, Nobuo Tomioka immediately bowed slightly, and then said with a smile: "Hello Mrs. Matsumoto, I'm Mr. Tomioka, and I'm here to show people the house this time, so I'm really sorry for you." ”

"Ah, okay, okay." Mrs. Matsumoto smiled and nodded, then looked at Cao Zhiqiang next to Nobuo Tomioka, and her eyes immediately lit up.

No way, although Cao Zhiqiang is only wearing a simple white shirt and jeans now, he is fair-skinned, tall and thin, and his appearance is also very delicate, which is especially loved by this kind of housewife.

In particular, the height of 1.85 meters is rare in Japan at this time.

"Is this the gentleman going to rent my house?" Mrs. Matsumoto looked at Cao Zhiqiang with a smile on her face and asked.

Nobuo Tomioka smiled: "Yes, it's him." ”

Mrs. Matsumoto blinked, then smiled and said, "Well, please come in, come in." ”

With that, Mrs. Matsumoto opened the door completely.

"Then excuse me!" Nobuo Tomioka smiled and nodded again.

Cao Zhiqiang had no choice but to nod his head.

There's no way, follow the customs, sometimes others bow and nod, and he will subconsciously follow suit, maybe this is conformity.

After Cao Zhiqiang followed Nobuo Tomioka into the room, he immediately looked around.

How to say, the decoration of this house is really good, it is a classic Japanese modern style decoration.

To put it simply, the entrance door is made of a sunken entrance, and the height difference between the upper and lower floors of the entrance is at least ten centimeters.

The sunken part of the entrance is a coffee-colored floor tile, and changing shoes and clothes or something is all in this sunken entrance.

The upper part of the entrance, that is, the indoor floor, is paved with a wooden floor, and the texture of the wooden floor alone knows that it is most likely to be solid wood.

In addition, there are no slippers and no shoe covers, which means that you have to take off your shoes at the entrance and go in with socks or bare feet.

For this design, Cao Zhiqiang doesn't know whether to say good or bad.

This is great from a cleanliness point of view, but it is not good in case the guests have smelly feet, such as athlete's foot.

But fortunately, Mrs. Matsumoto, Nobuo Tomioka, and of course Cao Zhiqiang himself have no athlete's foot, so there is nothing wrong with taking off their shoes and entering the house.

After entering, it is directly the living room, the living room is very modern, not the traditional Japanese tatami mat, the coffee table does not need to kneel and sit, but there is a sofa and a coffee table, the sofa is opposite the TV cabinet, the TV cabinet is empty, but in the past there should be a TV in that place.

Behind the sofa is the dining room, with tables and chairs, and behind the dining room is the open kitchen.

The walls are pasted with off-white wallpaper, and there are ceiling lamps hanging from the ceiling, and there are white energy-saving lamps inside, which is not bad in this era.

Surprisingly, there is an air conditioner, but the air conditioner is a window air conditioner, installed next to the window, and looks like a large ventilation fan.

It seems that the air conditioner should have been separately drilled in the wall, not installed in the window.

In short, it is a Japanese home style that is more modern according to current standards.

Well, this style of decoration, Cao Zhiqiang is actually very familiar, after all, in his previous life, when he was in a love action movie in his island country, he could often see a similar decoration style, but it looked more life-like here.

Soon, several people were invited to sit at the table.

Yes, it's the dining table, not the couch to sit on.

Because of the habit here, when outsiders come to visit, they all go to the restaurant to sit on the chair, and only the family members who know each other well will go to sit on the sofa.

Actually, it's good to sit at the table, and it's not easy to get dirty when you have tea and snacks.

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Zhiqiang and Nobuo Tomioka sat down side by side at the table, Mrs. Matsumoto began to serve tea and snacks.

After a lot of work, after the tea and snacks were served, Mrs. Matsumoto sat opposite Cao Zhiqiang and Nobuo Tomioka and began formal negotiations.

At the beginning, it was Mrs. Matsumoto who was asking, asking where Cao Zhiqiang was from, what kind of work he did, how many people lived, and so on.

Cao Zhiqiang felt that it was nothing, after all, the other party's house was the kind of one he loved very much, and it was normal to be picky about guests.

When she heard that Cao Zhiqiang was from China and came here to be an artist, but he lived alone, Mrs. Matsumoto just nodded and did not comment.

The next step is to talk about money.

Mrs. Matsumoto's request was 400,000 yen per month, and she paid three months' rent in advance.

Other water and electricity bills, gas bills and garbage bills are calculated separately and paid by Cao Zhiqiang separately.

Mrs. Matsumoto will come over once a month for a spot check, and if it is found that Cao Zhiqiang is not hygienic and the house is very bad, she has the right to terminate the lease contract in advance.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang said that it was acceptable, but he did not talk to Mrs. Matsumoto directly, but quietly told Nobuo Tomioka and asked Nobuo Tomioka to talk to her.

Nobuo Tomioka began to bargain with Mrs. Matsumoto, and finally paid 360,000 yen a month, paying three months' rent first, and other conditions remained the same.

After the talks, Nobuo Tomioka also took out a contract from his briefcase and asked Mrs. Matsumoto and Cao Zhiqiang to sign it.

This made Cao Zhiqiang very surprised, he thought that signing a rental contract must have the presence of a real estate agent.

As a result, Nobuo Tomioka said that this kind of housing lease contract, as long as both parties agree, sign and seal or put fingerprints on it, it is also legally valid, and it can be done without an intermediary.

What's more, there is also a third person in the presence of Nobuo Tomioka, which is even more of a problem.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang can only sigh that the Japanese during this period are really big-hearted.

Soon, Cao Zhiqiang and Mrs. Matsumoto signed and sealed.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang does not have a private seal in Japan, he pressed his handprint, but Mrs. Matsumoto, who has a private seal.

After signing and sealing, Mrs. Matsumoto was obviously much happier, and then began to talk to the two of them about her family.

It turned out that Mrs. Matsumoto's husband had been away on business for a long time, and she was the only one here with her children.

Originally, Mrs. Matsumoto was quite satisfied with her stay here, but she had to change places to live in order for her children to go to a better school.

Perhaps thinking that Cao Zhiqiang is Chinese, Mrs. Matsumoto also specially explained the concept of school district housing here.

It turns out that at this time, public schools in Japan are all enrolled in the nearest school, and children who want to go to public schools do not need any hukou, only depending on where you live.

If you live near the school and are part of the school district, you can enrol in this school.

Although Japan's public schools do not distinguish between key and non-focused, the teaching equipment of different public schools is roughly the same, and even the teacher rotation system has long been implemented, whether it is a principal or a teacher, they have to go to different schools on a regular basis, which is said to be very fair in the world, but there is still the concept of school district housing.

The so-called school district housing in Japan is actually calculated according to the school district.

In other words, in general, areas with higher housing prices and higher household classes have better quality of students.

After all, the richer the family, the more important it is to their children's education.

And those who really understand know that for a school, the most valuable thing is the quality of students, not what hardware facilities and teachers.

If a school has a good source of students and are all good children with high IQs and love to learn, then the grades are generally good, and vice versa.

Otherwise, there will be no places like Hengshui Middle School in China in the future, which is really a way to gather high-quality students, and in terms of school efficiency, it is really great.

In the same way, the school in a good school district has a good quality of students, a high admission rate, and a high quality of classmates.

Shibuya's side looks good now, but it's not a good school district after all.

The place that can be called a good school district here in Tokyo has to be the Bunkyo Ward, which is home to many famous schools, such as the University of Tokyo.

At the same time, the security of Bunkyo Ward is also the highest in Tokyo, and it is and will continue to be so.

Especially in the case of a woman like Mrs. Matsumoto with a child, she pays special attention to law and order, and she doesn't want her child to be bullied by her classmates when she goes to school, or blackmailed by a peripheral member of the Yakudo organization.

After saying this, Mrs. Matsumoto began to nag about the hard work of a woman with children, and by the way, she vaguely showed off her superiority, such as her husband's monthly income of one million yen.

One million yen, now calculated, is almost more than 8,000 yuan, and if it is converted to 2023, it will be more than 50,000 yuan.

This level is a properly high income both now and in the future.

No wonder she is so proud, and she is willing to stay at home with her children like a widow, it is really too much money.

But hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang always felt weird.

The husband is on a long-term business trip, and the rich wife is at home alone with the children, and the children go to school, and the wife is at home alone......

Hey, this plot is inexplicably familiar!

Sure enough, art comes from life, and I can't be fooled.

Interestingly, a phone was also installed here, but it was not removed.

Mrs. Matsumoto told Cao Zhiqiang that when he lived here, he had to pay the monthly telephone bill here, but he could use the phone here, but if someone called Mrs. Matsumoto, he had to tell the other party his tenant identity and give Mrs. Matsumoto's new phone number.

In other words, Mrs. Matsumoto gave Cao Zhiqiang the number of her new phone and told him with a smile that he could call her at any time when he had something.

For some reason, when he heard this, Cao Zhiqiang always felt hairy in his heart, and even felt that Mrs. Matsumoto didn't look at him right, and always felt that she was pointing something.

Of course, this may be Cao Zhiqiang's delusion, after all, he watched too many movies in his previous life, and sometimes it is normal to think too much.

It's conservative eighties after all, and it shouldn't be.

In this way, I signed the contract in a daze and paid the money in a daze.

After Mrs. Matsumoto and Mr. Tomioka said goodbye and left, leaving Cao Zhiqiang alone at home, he suddenly woke up.

"Hey, no, why did I choose this place in a daze? Didn't you just come up and have a look? How did you get it done so quickly? ”

After frowning and thinking about it again, Cao Zhiqiang thought back to what had happened before, and then suddenly realized that it seemed that Mrs. Matsumoto had been talking to Nobuo Tomioka before, and he couldn't interject.

Then he said that he himself signed a contract with Mrs. Matsumoto in a daze under the enthusiasm of Nobuo Tomioka and pressed his handprint.

But in fact, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to live here.

The reason is very simple, not because I think there is something wrong with Mrs. Matsumoto, not because the house is bad, and not because the price is too expensive, but because of Akina Nakamori.

Yes, Akina Nakamori lives next door, what is it for him to move in?

Friends and neighbors are sisters?

My neighbor is a female celebrity?

Hiss...... It's another familiar plot.

After raising his eyebrows, Cao Zhiqiang gently supported his forehead, always feeling as if he had been tricked.

After the forehead support, Cao Zhiqiang decided to accept the reality.

After all, the money has been given and the contract has been signed, so you can't regret it now.

If you reverses the contract, the money will not be returned.

That's three months' rent, 1.08 million yen, that's a lot!

"Forget it, if you come, you will be safe, let's live and take a look first," Cao Zhiqiang, who said this, sighed, "Nakamori Akina is just a neighbor, it should be fine...... Right? ”

(End of chapter)