The online ride-hailing driver delivered Zhou Datong to that community, and Zhou Datong also gave the driver the remaining 200 yuan in cash to express his gratitude.
As a result, the driver said that he would not be paid for helping the police, so he stepped on the accelerator and swerved out of the way.
Standing at the entrance of the community, Zhou Datong took a look. Even though the community was dark, he could tell that it was a community of single-family villas.
Generally speaking, the security of properties in this type of community is very strict. Even though this community seems a bit unusual, the door is open casually, and Zhou Datong does not dare to break in rashly.
Perhaps because he stayed too long, the dim-eyed old man in the concierge happened to wake up again. When he saw Zhou Datong, he opened the window and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Datong waved his hands hurriedly and said, "It's okay, I'll just take a look." After saying that, he wanted to leave.
But the more he behaved like this, the more the old man felt that something was wrong. He didn't care that his legs and feet were no longer flexible in his seventies. He was not strong enough to deal with bad people, so he ran out of the concierge.
Chasing Zhou Datong.
Zhou Datong didn't dare to really run. After all, the old man was a bit shaky when he walked. If you run in front and someone chases you, who's going to fall if you fall?
Letting the old man grab his clothes, Zhou Dadong said with a grimace: "Master, I just want to see that I am not a bad person."
"Hmph, what are you doing here in the middle of the night to watch? Bad people don't have it written on their faces..."
Zhou Dadong heard a bit of local accent in the old man's accent, so he changed to his hometown dialect: "I'm really not a bad person, you don't need to be so vigilant. If I were a bad person, I would be the one you chased me out just now.
I just ran away, you don’t really think your legs and feet can catch up with me, do you? I’m just afraid that you’ll fall somewhere.”
These words had some effect, and the old man was not an ignorant person.
But what was more effective was obviously Zhou Datong's dialect.
"Where are you from?"
When Zhou Dadong mentioned his hometown, the old man slapped his thigh: "We are from the same province, neighboring city."
Zhou Dadong smiled naively and said, "I just heard your accent, so I changed to my hometown dialect."
"Young man, you can't embarrass us Shanxi people. It doesn't matter if you can't make money, but you can't do those sneaky things."
Zhou Datong smiled helplessly, but he really didn't have much cash on him. He thought about it, took out his mobile phone, opened his bank app, and showed the old man the balance in his bank card.
"Uncle, I am really not a bad person, let alone a thief. Look at my bank card, it contains more than two million, right?"
The old man was stunned. He counted the bank card balances on Zhou Datong's mobile phone for a long time, and finally believed that it was a real bank deposit, totaling more than two million.
"You young people, if you have money, you can't put it in a current card like this. How much interest will you lose in a year? You should save it regularly for three years..."
Zhou Datong smiled bitterly and said: "This is all my money for business. I often have to pay and I often have money coming in. How can I do business if I save money regularly? Now you believe that I am not a bad person, right?"
"Then why are you here so late at night without sleeping?"
Zhou Dadong thought for a while and thought that the old man was a bit of a jerk, but since he was a fellow villager, he also wanted to take the opportunity to ask him about the situation in this community.
So, he made up a reason.
"I'm planning to buy an apartment here. A friend introduced me to this community.
But my dad told me that I shouldn’t be in a hurry when buying a house.
Let the agent or the landlord take you to see it, and he will tell you all about how great the house is.
But if there is any problem with this house, they are not allowed to talk about it.
Moreover, my dad also said that you need to see this house once during the day and again at night. You have to see it on sunny days and also on rainy days. It would be better if you can encounter heavy snow days.
It is necessary to comprehensively examine whether the house is worth buying or not.
So I just finished drinking with someone and happened to be nearby, and I just wanted to see what this neighborhood is like at night."
When the old man heard what he said, he actually believed it.
Nodding, the old man said: "What your father said makes sense. This is the experience summarized by your elders. It seems that you are really a good boy and listen to your father's words. But I can tell you
, you can’t buy this community now, and if you buy it, you won’t be able to live in it for the time being.”
"How do you say this?" Zhou Datong asked curiously.
"Look at this community, the door is not even closed at night. Let me tell you the truth, in the whole community except me, there is only one old man who watches this door during the day. It is said to be a guard, but in fact it is just a decoration. Someone comes in
We basically don’t ask when you come in or out. If I hadn’t seen you as a thief and misunderstood, I wouldn’t have bothered to ask you.”
Zhou Datong frowned and wondered what he meant by this. It was a very high-end community with single-family villas, but why didn’t it even have a property?
He raised his question.
The old man sighed and said, "It's not all the trouble on the subway."
"It's a good thing to have a subway. With convenient transportation, won't housing prices also go up?"
"That's what I said, but that was after the subway was built. Now the subway is being built, and it will take several years. During the day, when there is construction, there is a rumbling underground, and the whole community is shaking..."
As he was talking, the old man's stomach growled, indicating that he was hungry.
"Oh, I just woke up because I was hungry. I happened to see you. I'm not going to bullshit you. Anyway, I'm telling you, don't buy in this neighborhood for the time being. Wait until you get a better deal. This subway might be available in three years or five years.
We can finish it later!"
After that, the old man turned around and wanted to go back to the concierge, intending to eat the late-night snack he had brought.
Zhou Dadong also smiled and asked: "Uncle, why didn't you have dinner in the middle of the night?"
"I've been confused all day long. I ate what I had to take over in the afternoon. I'm not allowed to have another meal tonight?"
Zhou Datong said: "That's true, but you can't be eating instant noodles in the middle of the night, right?"
"That's not possible. I'll cook more during the day. I'll bring a portion when I'm done eating. I can heat it up in the microwave and eat it."
"It's such a hot day, and your rice won't go rancid if you keep it indoors!"
"It's okay now, but it will be a bit troublesome to wait until next month!"
Zhou Dadong smiled and said: "Uncle, do you think this will work? I'll buy you some barbecue and bring some wine. It's fate that we, two men from the same province, can meet here in Harbin. We just happen to be together."
Let’s chat, I’ll also ask you about the situation in this community.”
The old man hesitated for a moment, but still agreed: "Then you have to hurry up. If you go north, there will be a barbecue stall at the intersection. It should be there by now. He does it until three o'clock every day.
"
Zhou Datong agreed happily: "Okay, I'll go over right now, please wait for me for a while."
After that, he strode northward. Sure enough, as soon as he reached the intersection, he saw a barbecue stall on the left.
Zhou Datong ordered a lot of meat skewers, chicken wings and the like, and ordered a few bottles of beer. After the skewers were ready, they took them back to the neighborhood.
While unpacking, Zhou Datong asked casually: "No one bothered you just now, right?"
"How can there be anyone here in the middle of the night? How about I treat you as a thief?" The old man also joked.
Zhou Datong chuckled and said, "I mean, no one living here came in or out just now, right?"
"What kind of bullshit are you living in? There are a total of forty-eight houses here. They are all good houses. Each of them has a large yard of several hundred square meters. But guess how many hairy people live here?"
Zhou Datong opened two bottles of beer with his teeth, handed one to the old man, and said, "Uncle, you can eat skewers."
Then he looked at the community outside and said: "In such a large community, even if it is not full, don't you still have to live in No. 180?
For such a big house, there must be at least four, five, five or six people in the house, right? The family would have to hire someone to tidy up and clean the house.
If you want me, I have two children, so I have to bring my parents over. If my wife’s parents are willing to live in, that’s fine. If I have two more children, I’ll hire a nanny and a cleaning aunt..."
The old man laughed loudly, ate a meat skewer, then picked up the wine bottle and touched it with Zhou Datong.
"It seems that although you are making money, at heart you still come from your small place.
Whose big house allows parents and father-in-law to live together?
Of course, what you said is quite different. If people were to live in it, such a big house would have to have at least four or five people.
Including cleaning and other things, there must be five or six people in that building.
The three families living in the house now are a couple with two children. Two people are specially hired to work at home, and there are six people living there in total.
Three families means eighteen...
Haha, in such a large community, there are only eighteen residents in total, you can’t believe it, right?”
Zhou Datong frowned as he listened. It didn't matter to him how many people lived in this community, but the old man said that there were three families in total, all of them were a couple with two children, and the family hired two people to work.
So is Lao Dapeng considered the child, or the husband of the couple?
This definitely can't be Cheng Fu's property, so it can only be Lao Dapeng's, right?
Could it be that that guy is just like Lao Dapeng and happened to live in Wudong for a month, so he is not Lao Dapeng?
Zhou Dadong thought about it and sent the photo of the two people he just took to Cheng Yu. He wanted to ask Cheng Yu if the people in the photo were Lao Dapeng and Cheng Fu.
"There are more than forty houses, and only three families live there?" Zhou Datong, of course, had to continue chatting with the old man.
The old man took a sip of wine, sipped two skewers of meat, and his mouth was full of oil.
"Didn't I tell you that we are building the subway? None of these three companies are particularly rich. They have made some money doing small businesses and supporting their families are certainly better than the rest of us.
But compared with those who have not moved in, they are considered poor.
If they hadn't had anywhere else to live in Harbin, they wouldn't have rushed to move there despite the noise from the subway construction.
I've talked to them all, and there's nothing wrong with it. I didn't have any other house, so I bought this place.
The renovation is complete, and the rented houses over there have also expired. Who would have thought that a subway would be built underneath this community?"
Seeing Zhou Datong's confused look, the old man smiled and said, "Don't understand? It's okay. I'll eat and drink enough in a while and take you around inside and you'll understand everything!"
