Chapter 22: A New Home and the Problem of Eating
On Saturday, Xiaohu led Li Junhao to see two houses, and finally selected a two-story villa in Manchunfang on the south side of Ningbo Road in the French Concession, whose original owner was a German businessman, and now because of the unstable situation in Europe, the German decided to leave here and move to South America with his family.
At this time, the relationship between Germany and the United States was acceptable, and the German businessman saw that it was a young American who wanted to buy a house and knew German, so he made a little concession before talking, and finally the two of them made a deal for 33,000 oceans.
Xiaohu also had $1,000, 1,000 oceans and more than 20,000 legal dollars belonging to Li Junhao, Li Junhao took the $1,000 and paid off the house with his $500, and agreed to take over the house the next day.
After returning to the International Hotel, Xiaohu took the initiative to settle the room payment, and then came back and took out 1,000 oceans and 28,000 legal currency and handed them to Li Junhao, and left with some reluctance.
Although Li Junhao feels a little uncomfortable, but his character is a more open-minded kind of person, there is no feast in the world, although they are separated now, but the mountains and rivers meet, maybe one day they will meet again, there is nothing to feel nostalgic, and cherish it!
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Early on Sunday morning, Li Junhao went downstairs with two suitcases, drove out of the International Hotel, and went to Manchunfang to receive his own real estate, which can be regarded as an apartment, a two-storey villa, with a total of more than 220 square meters, complete furniture, although there are no electrical appliances, but finally have his own nest in this world, and there is no loan, debt-free and light, more comfortable than in the previous life.
In addition to the house, there is a small front yard, more than 100 square meters, with a wall, privacy is very good, the door is opened along the street, the car can be driven directly to the yard, and it is very convenient to live and travel; And it is very close to the Consulate General, without traffic jams, it is only two or three minutes away by car, which is very conducive to his commuting; The house is a detached house, quiet in the bustling French Concession, and the surrounding neighbors are basically foreigners, mainly French, as well as Swiss, Belgians, Germans, and British, and he is not conspicuous at all, which makes him very satisfied.
The original German owner was very conscientious and was very satisfied with the cleaning of the house and yard before leaving, so that he could live in peace with just a few new bedding and daily necessities.
In the afternoon, he drove to the Dahua Department Store on Avenida to shop, the best American Simmons mattresses, fine cotton embossed bed sheets, Suzhou embroidered silk quilts, a full set of Jingdezhen porcelain tea sets and tableware, refrigerators and air conditioners imported from the United States, a full set of kitchenware and knives imported from Germany, and daily chemical products imported from France......
Because there are too many things, department stores will send people to send cars to deliver them to the door, refrigerators and air conditioners, which are relatively rare at this time, have to be specially installed, and even the installation masters are foreign technicians.
Because he spent money generously enough, He Dongming, the young owner of Dahua Company, came forward to meet him in person, and when he saw that he was an American, he also handed over a regular name post and left his personal contact information.
Li Junhao saw that the name card listed that the He family business has He's cotton spinning, Dahua Department Store, Siming Hotel, Qihua hardware and other industries, but he came to be interested, and told the other party that this polite and polite He family young owner, he had just arrived in Huhai and had just begun to settle down, and he had not yet determined the contact information, and he would contact him after settling down.
In this regard, of course, He Dongming didn't think it was wrong, and sent him out with a smile, repeatedly telling him to contact him often, until he watched him get in the car and drive away, and then returned to the department store.
Mr. Li drove back to Dequ Building, and after more than half an hour, a truck from the Majestic Department Store delivered all the goods he had bought at once, accompanied by four workers, two of whom were foreign technicians. The strength of the number of people is great, and all the goods were quickly delivered to the house, and two foreign technicians were the mainstay, supplemented by two Chinese workers, and began to install refrigerators and air conditioners. The refrigerator is easy to do, move to the kitchen on the first floor, and you can use it after turning on the power, and the air conditioning is much more troublesome.
A high-powered air conditioner was installed in the hall on the first floor, and two small window machines were installed in the bedroom and study on the second floor, and the installation of the three air conditioners took nearly an afternoon. During this period, Li Junhao also called back to the Consulate General and asked his colleagues from the logistics department to help contact the power supply station in the French Concession to reconnect the high-power power supply line for Dequlou to ensure the electricity supply of air conditioners and refrigerators.
By the way, the logistics staff of the Consulate General also asked the telephone bureau of the French Concession to change the telephone number of Dequlou according to Li Junhao's request, so as to prevent the relatives and friends of the former German businessman from harassing him by phone.
At five o'clock in the afternoon, things were almost done in the Dequ Building, and before leaving, the workers of Dahua Company also took away the garbage generated by the packaging and installation of goods, but the results were still much worse than those of the previous Germans. Li Junhao pondered whether he needed to find a part-time job or something to clean and tidy up the house regularly...... Oh, and by the way, cook for you?
Thinking of cooking, he is worried now, seeing that it is almost dinner time, a full set of kitchen utensils has been bought, and the kitchen itself has special gas pipes and stoves, and now he is almost a person who can cook! But thinking of this, he scratched his head a little, he had just arrived in Shanghai for a few days, except for some people in Fenghuang Village and some people from the U.S. Consulate General, the others were simply black-eyed!
However, although he doesn't know how to solve this matter for the time being, it's dinner time today, and he always has to eat! I could only get up and go out to look for a meal, but after driving around, I didn't find a relatively suitable restaurant, and before I knew it, I went back to the Consulate General...... Gotta go in the cafeteria!
Although it was a weekend, there were still a lot of people in the consulate, many single American staff did not buy a room alone, they lived in the consulate, and some had jobs that needed to work overtime, so at this dinner time, there were dozens of people in the restaurant eating, and more than a dozen people who had met and known him before saw him come in, and they all raised their hands to say hello, and he also smiled and waved back.
This time, he chose Chinese food, two servings of rice, stewed beef brisket with potatoes, and crucian carp tofu, the meal tasted good and was more comfortable to eat. In the past two days, it should be that the effect of the genetic medicine has gradually been exerted, his physical fitness growth has basically stagnated, and the amount of food has gradually become normal, and he is no longer so gobbling up when eating, but he can savor the taste, and it is indeed much more comfortable than Western food.