I immediately understood what he meant: If you want to rent my shop, don't leave! Will rent to you.

Scarface said angrily, "Old man, that's right. Don't look for trouble. ”

He said and looked at me again: "Get out of here!" ”

I took a few steps and looked back again.

Scarface is tearing up the rental advertisement on the store.

He smashed the torn pieces viciously in the landlord's face, and was furious: "Don't think that you post these advertisements to be useful, let me tell you, as many people come to see the store, I will blow you away." ”

Scarface's roar provoked many people around him.

"Look at what! Get out of here. ”

We walked a little farther, and Avrilvi tugged at my sleeve: "Uncle, don't you think what happened just now is very strange?" ”

"It's not surprising that the landlord has been threatened."

"Do we still want to rent?"

"Let's see!"

There must be a story behind this shop, maybe a tragedy.

If I'm going to rent, I'm going to get caught up in right and wrong.

I don't want to be nosy.

So, I decided to look elsewhere.

After a walk around with Avrilvi, I returned to the neighborhood of the shop.

"Uncle, we walked around, and there are no other shops except here, so you plan to ......"

Sometimes, I feel like fate is full of drama.

It's a coincidence.

I've always wanted to figure out, why did Master let me open a shop in the antique street?

Master asked me to open a shop in the antique street, which determined that the location of my current store must be an antique street.

And now there is no other place in the antique street except here.

It was decided that I had to set up shop here.

As I said, I'm not a nosy person, but in the dark, it seems to have its own certainty.

I stood in front of the shop and looked at the surrounding environment, and suddenly found that none of the shops on the left and right, as well as the shops on the opposite street, were engaged in antique business, except for Sihai Pavilion.

It's a very good location, how come no one is in the antique business?

It seems that the story behind this is not simple.

"Uncle, let's continue to call the landlord?" Ai was slightly tentative.

"Not for now, let's see."

I looked up at the number of the shop, 18 Antique Street.

Darkly, I felt that the reason why he had been empty for so long was just to wait for me to open it.

And the reason why I was able to open it was because Master's ghost was calling me.

I looked up at the sky, and my gaze touched the space beyond.

Not far away, I saw the landlord's swaying figure, and I guess he had been waiting for me nearby.

I looked at him, and sure enough, he saw me and nodded at me.

Then, turn around and walk forward.

They were all antiques, and I knew he was hinting at me and going with him.

We followed him through the narrow alleys, out of the antique street, to a large shopping mall, and took the elevator to the safe passage of the mall.

The landlord looked around and there was no one.

He sighed: "You also saw what happened just now, do you still want to rent it now?" ”

I guessed from him that he still wanted to rent it to us, but he didn't know what we thought.

I asked rhetorically, "Can you explain what just happened?" ”

"That person just now is from Sihai Pavilion, and they don't allow me to rent out the house."

"Why?" Avrilvi blurted out, looking like she couldn't wait to find out the inside story.

"I'm afraid I'll rob their business."

I was puzzled: "Sihai Group has so much financial resources, are you afraid that you will rob their business?" ”

"There is a lot of competition among peers."

That's a good thing to say.

"You just said that if you want to rent your shop, you must agree to your conditions, what are your conditions?"

"There are two conditions that must be met to rent my house, you have already met the first condition, and there is a second."

"Huh?" I was surprised.

"My shop is only rented to antique sellers, and you're satisfied. There is also one, if you want to rent, at least ten years, and for ten years, no matter what trouble you have, you have to stick to it. ”

"Ten years?" My voice went up.

This is something I didn't expect.

"Mr. landlord, can you tell me why you want to rent for ten years?"

"There's no why, I'm a landlord and that's my rule."

He refused to answer my questions.

It makes me feel even weirder.

Generally, it is the tenant who offers the landlord to rent for 10 years. Because the tenant wants to renovate the house, if the renovation is good, the landlord will not rent it, which is a big loss.

Rent for ten years, and after ten years, the decoration will not be worth much. It also avoids landlord price increases.

Is he afraid that the store will not be rented out and there will be economic losses?

There is no worry that such a lot will not be rented out, and it has been empty for so long before.

What the hell is he hiding?

I hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Is your so-called trouble the Sihai Group?" ”

The landlord nodded: "After you open the store, they will use all means to harass you, torture you, and keep forcing you away." I estimate that you may not last more than a month before you have to check out. No, half a day, it's not bad to be able to last half a day. ”

I sneered: "A month is too much to underestimate me." ”

"For a month, I already look down on you, maybe, I won't say half a day, just three days, and you will be forced away in three days."

My face sank: "Not really." ”

The landlord's voice was very low: "You are an outsider, you don't know how powerful the Sihai Group is, they are not easy to mess with." And even if you don't mess with them, they'll mess with you. ”

"I don't like to cause trouble, but I'm not afraid of it."

The landlord's eyes lit up, and his expression was surprised: "It's a man!" So, are you sure you're renting my shop? ”

"I do want to rent your shop, but ten years is too long. I don't know why you have to let me rent it for ten years, if it has something to do with Sihai Group. I can assure you that if you quit the lease one day in the future, it must be my own reason, and it has nothing to do with Sihai Group. ”

Ten years, I may not be able to last that long, after all, I rent this shop for information circulation and convenience for me to investigate cases.

After the case is cleared, I will definitely not rent it.

The landlord said in a tough tone: "Anyone can say that." If you want to rent, you have to ten years. ”

"Mr. landlord, to tell you the truth, I only planned to rent for three years, and three years is a long time for other landlords. There are a lot of problems involved in running a shop, and there are profits and losses in doing business, and I can't guarantee that I will be able to pay the rent every time for such a long time. ”

"It's okay if you can't pay it, but you have to rent it for ten years."

As soon as these words came out, I was even more strange, it doesn't matter if I can't hand it over?

This shows that he is not short of money.

"If I promise to rent for 10 years, how will I pay the rent?" I continued to tempt.

"A one-time payment for five years."

"Five years!" I was amazed at how there was such a rental house.

Ai Weiwei began to calculate next to her: "100,000 a month, 1.2 million a year, 6 million in five years." ”

If he is not short of money, why pay 6 million again. If he was short of money, he volunteered to lower the rental price by half.

I now know why this house can't be rented out for three years because the landlord is a strange person.

I really doubt it's a game.

His purpose should not be that simple.

"Do you rent or not?" The landlord continued to press.