Liang Yinghong refused to give in, shaking her head like a rattle: "Three thousand and one."
Ma Dongpeng smiled bitterly and said: "Everyone is increasing or decreasing by five hundred and five hundred. You are too cruel. You are here at one hundred and one hundred."
"That's just my temper." Liang Yinghong said, rolling her eyes.
This left Lao Ma feeling helpless and said, "Oh, I'm convinced too. Four thousand a year, if it works, I'll sign it. If it doesn't work, forget it."
Intellectuals are also cunning and ask for a high price at first in order to leave room for bargaining for tenants.
Of course he knew that his small bungalow could not be rented out for RMB 6,000 a year. Although he did not understand the new thing of game arcade, he also knew that in this era when ordinary workers paid RMB 140-160 a month, doing business was actually quite risky.
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Just like Liang Yinghong said, if you can earn rent every month and have some surplus, it would be great.
His bottom line is four thousand yuan. Of course, he would be happy if he met a fool who was willing to pay a high price.
But Liang Yinghong was obviously not a fool, but very shrewd. Moreover, this woman was so unconventional that she immediately disrupted Ma Dongpeng's rhythm and forced him to quote the lowest price directly.
Liang Yinghong winked at Xia Chen, feeling extremely proud, meaning, look, your stepmother is so awesome.
Xia Chen rubbed her nose and had no intention of participating in the whole process, but she very much approved of her stepmother's routine.
Alas, my stepmother is a person who knows how to live a good life.
"Three thousand and two." Liang Yinghong continued to negotiate the price.
"I said, eldest sister, we really don't do this. I think you are a real person, so I quoted you the lowest price. As I said, four thousand a year will make it happen. If it doesn't work, you can look at other places.
Let’s go to our house.” My mother almost collapsed and said with a sad face.
Liang Yinghong looked at Xia Chen and saw that Erzai just smiled but said nothing. She guessed that the dog was quite satisfied with the price and stopped arguing with Ma Dongpeng. She said: "Chengchengcheng, I won't talk to you either.
Sorry, does Comrade Ma have a rental contract with you? If so, it will be at this price. Also, do we want to go in? Take a look, is it okay?"
Seeing that she agreed, Ma Dongpeng was very happy and said with a smile on his face: "Of course that's no problem. Come with me. I have the contract with me. We can sign it after seeing the house."
He pushed the bicycle to the door, pushed down the support, took out the key and opened the door.
The stench of salty hairtail fish wrapped in rotten eggs hit your face.
Wang Zhenhai immediately covered his nose and said in a buzzing voice: "Oh, this smells like this."
Xia Chen also quickly covered his nose, "How long has it been since no one cleaned it?"
When he walked to the cashier, he saw several bottles of unopened wine on the shelf. He looked at them one by one. Oh, there were actually two bottles of Jiannanchun, three bottles of Quanxing Daqu, and a bottle of Kouzijiao. They were all from the 1980s.
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This is really an unexpected gain.
"Second brother, put these bottles of wine away." Xia Chen shouted, turned to Ma Dongpeng and said, "It's okay for us to keep it, Comrade Ma?"
Ma Dongpeng was not a good drinker, so he said with a smile: "The house has been rented to you, so these bottles of wine are naturally yours. I guess the previous tenant left in a hurry and didn't bother to keep them.
You guys can help me drink it."
Xia Chen nodded and said yes, thinking that he would definitely drink it, but he couldn't make it easier for the boss and the second child. At most, he would leave a bottle for the two of them in the cellar, and take the remaining bottles home to honor Lao Xia.
I turned it around inside and out, and except for the unpleasant smell, everything else was pretty good.
Xia Chen muttered a few words to Liang Yinghong.
Liang Yinghong rolled her eyes, pinched his waist, complained that he was your best, and signed the contract with Ma Dongpeng.
The contract lasts for five years, and the rent is paid annually. The two parties have agreed that if any party breaches the contract, he will be compensated ten times. This must be clearly reflected in the contract.
Ma Dongpeng twitched the corner of his mouth.
This is what Xia Chen requested.
why?
The reason is very simple. In order to prevent Ma Dongpeng from seeing that the business of his game arcade is so good, he will kick people out and open it himself after breaking the contract.
The official effective date of the contract is one week later, and this week belongs to the decoration period.
Xia Chen counted out four thousand yuan and handed it to Ma Dongpeng.
Lao Ma took the money and sighed and said: "You guys are really smart. I have never seen people who can talk about business like you. I believe that no matter what business you do, you will make a lot of money every day and make a lot of money."
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Liang Yinghong laughed loudly and said, "Then let me borrow your good words from Comrade Ma."
Ma Dongpeng handed the three keys to Liang Yinghong and said with a smile: "That's it. Just don't forget to pay the water and electricity bills every month. You're busy, I'll go back first."
Liang Yinghong politely sent his gift out, and when she came back, she asked Xia Chen: "Damn, the house is rented, what should I do next?"
Xia Chen also sighed, "Old Liang, your son is already eighteen years old, how about you save some face for him in front of outsiders?"
Lao Liang's shouting was so smooth.
Liang Yinghong snorted and said as if she didn't take it seriously at all: "What? You don't think this title sounds good? You are eighty years old, and you can only listen to me in front of me. If you want to resist, you are still young.
Son."
Okay, you are the stepmother and you have the final say.
Xia Chen rolled his eyes, hugged his stepmother's arm and said with a smile: "If I were a dog, you would be the dog's mother, so I won't suffer at all."
Liang Yinghong raised her hand and flicked his forehead, and she also laughed: "Don't forget to take me with you in the ditch. Tell me, what should we do next?"
Xia Chen blurted out without thinking: "It must be cleaning and simple decoration. Look, this house has been damaged by the previous tenant. The floor is full of oil, and the walls are also stained with oil.
, In this way, we don’t have to make any big changes. The walls will be white from all sides, and the floor will be mopped clean. The inner room will be divided into two rooms, and the outer room will be paid to live in, and the inner room will be used as a side job. "
Wang Zhenhai said: "The room inside is a little more troublesome. The previous tenant used it as a kitchen. It was filled with pots and pans. The walls were covered in a layer of black ash and had to be shoveled and re-done."
Xia Chen also looked at it, nodded and said: "Then shovel all the walls, those pots and pans, find a junk collector to come and look at them, sell the ones that can be sold, and throw away the ones that can't be sold.
ball."
Wang Zhenhai said: "Okay, I'll do it right away. In addition, I can also do the wall painting work together. I'll go to the labor market to hire two workers, and it will be done in two days at most."
He was very motivated. Xia Chen was very satisfied and said with a smile: "Then I'll trouble you, big brother."
Wang Zhenhai also laughed and joked: "You have to obey the boss when you serve the boss's bowl. There's no need for trouble."
He went out on errands.
Xia Chen said to Wang Zhenjiang again: "Second brother, there is one more thing you need to work hard on."
Wang Zhenjiang nodded and said, "You say."
Xia Chen said: "Go to the Jiancai Expansion Department and have someone measure the dimensions. We have to make a door plaque to attract customers, right?"
Wang Zhenjiang thought for a while and said, "I have a classmate who does this. How about I ask him if he is willing to take this job?"
"Where are your classmates?"
"That's nonsense. I, your second brother, have graduated from elementary school after all."
"Then you are so honored. You can boast about it for the rest of your life."
"You kid, just hurt me, hahahaha... If you don't want to be poor with me, I'll go do something."
He also left and received a house key before leaving.
Xia Chen's pager rang. He took it out and saw that, sure enough, it was Xiao Yu calling him, leaving a message asking him to call back.
Because only Xiao Yu knows this pager number so far.
Liang Yinghong was very gossipy and asked: "Who called you?"
Xia Chen smiled and said, "Guess."
"I do not guess you guess guess."
"Guess, I guess, you guess or not."
"You guess, I guess, you guess, I guess."
"You...Old Liang, you are very slippery. If you don't go to the bridge to talk about cross talk, your good talk will be in vain. Think about it, stop working in the game arcade and just leave it. You can definitely make money." Xia Chen
He put his arm around his stepmother's shoulders and said seriously.
"Fuck you, you're making fun of me, right? These days, a lot of cross talkers in professional academies have starved to death... Hey, why am I telling you this? Just return your call." Liang Yinghong
Pushed Xia Chen out of the door.
After crossing the road, Xia Chen stuffed two steel pennies into the phone booth at the school gate and dialed the number.
Sister Xiaoyu's voice came quickly: "Why did you call back so quickly this time?"
Xia Chen held a cigarette in his mouth and said: "How dare you not hurry up when called by the leader?"
Xiao Yu felt a little sweet in her heart, but she said unforgivingly: "Fuck you, what kind of leader am I?"
"Let me do the math. Above the section chief is the deputy director, and above the deputy director is the director. Sister Xiaoyu is only 27 this year, and her future is bright."
He chuckled, then changed the subject, sighed, and said: "Unlike me, I work in a small and broken company with no development in sight. In order to survive, I have to work hard to flatter the female boss, all day long.
I walk on thin ice with trepidation, serving the female boss front and back, for fear that if I fail to do anything right, the female boss will be unhappy and her job will not be saved."
This guy started putting hooks again.
Xiao Yu's heart trembled and he quickly asked: "Is your boss a woman?"
Look, this is a trap.
Women are more or less curious.
"Ang, not only is she a woman, but she is also a cold woman. The kind of woman who is cold all over. I tell you, women who are completely cold are the scariest." Xia Chen said exaggeratedly.
"Goose, goose, goose..." Sister Xiaoyu laughed out loud and asked after a moment: "Then tell me, where is that woman cold?"
"How do you describe this?" He whetted his appetite for a moment, then when he heard Sister Xiaoyu uttering a "hmm", her tone was still rising, Xia Chen continued: "Don't let strangers enter, right?"
"Know."
"That's how my female boss feels. She keeps a cold face all day long, as if everyone in the company owes her a dime and hasn't paid back."
Xia Chenxin said, Gu Yiyi, I didn't mean to set you up, you did leave such an impression on me.
Sister Xiaoyu laughed again.
"You called me today just to hear me talk about this?" Xia Chen didn't believe that Sao Yu had nothing to do with him.
"Yes and no." Xiao Yu was also of a high rank. He stretched Xia Chen's arms first to test his reaction before deciding whether to continue chatting with him.
"That's sister, you miss me." Xia Chen is really not afraid of flirting.
Xiao Yu's heart was scratched by the cat's paw again, and he said softly: "I hate it."
Xia Chen was not impatient and said slowly: "What, sister, I don't have any change in my pocket. The last two coins are stuffed into the phone. If you don't have anything else, I'll hang up now. I'll call you later."
You have dinner and we can meet and chat."
Xia Chen used this trick of playing hard to get very skillfully.
Don't say yes, okay, please don't say any more, I don't want to hear it anymore, let's see who can't hold it in first.
After several fights, Xia Chen also figured out that she used to think that Sao Yu was just a somewhat shrewd young woman, but later found out that her rank was one level higher than the word shrewd, which was a bit challenging.
Xia Chen is never afraid of challenges. Since Sister Xiaoyu is willing to pull the strings, then so be it.