Chapter 692 What is benevolence, is for forbearance
When Wang Xu walked out of the toilet, he saw a boy with a mole at the corner of his mouth looking at him through the glass.
The first time he saw the boy, Wang Xu knew that the person in the toilet was him.
How should I put it? This is an ordinary little boy. Judging from the clothes on his body, his family conditions are not very good. The only impressive thing is that he has a mole on the corner of his mouth, which is very easy to identify.
When he found Wang Xu coming out, the little boy pretended to be nonchalant and left.
After a while, Bertie also walked out of the utility room. She stood at the door and looked around, as if she was looking for something.
After searching for a while, he couldn't find it. Bertie left disappointedly, looking a little depressed.
"Fat boy, do you recognize the little boy who went out just now with the mole on the corner of his mouth?"
Wang Xu returned to his seat and called over Bill's son, a little fat boy named Fatty.
Fatty is fifteen years old this year and weighs 220 kilograms. He started to huff and puff after walking a few steps and said out of breath: "That's Carmen, my best friend."
Hearing the fat boy say that Carmen is his best friend, Wang Xu really wanted to ask the little fat boy if he knew that his good friend came to see his sister's naked body every day.
"What does he do?"
Wang Xu did not speak directly, but asked with a smile.
Fatty hesitated and replied: "Freelance job."
In the current environment, freelancing is not a legitimate profession. It is a mockery of thieves, robbers, and gangsters.
Carmen is as old as Fatty. She is only fifteen years old. You don’t have to think about the profession of robber. She is probably either a thief or a gangster. In addition, Carmen’s hands are very rough and covered with calluses. At first glance, she does not look like a skilled person.
, he must be a gangster.
"A little gangster who wants money but not money, and looks but not looks, can actually pick up an exquisite luoli like Bertie. No wonder some people say that a good man doesn't have a good wife."
Wang Xu sat on the chair and lost interest in eating any more. He said, "Bill, let's settle the score!"
Bill ran over in a hurry, smiled like a flower, and said flatteringly: "No, no, you are eating here, how can I ask for money!"
"No, I'm not a freeloader. I won't take advantage of this."
Wang Xu dug out his pocket, took out a twenty-cent coin, raised his hand and threw it on the table: "If it's too much, I'll save it for next time. If it's not enough, I'll ask for it tomorrow. If it's free of charge, I'll give it to you next time."
Say no more."
"Yes Yes."
Bill nodded repeatedly, and when he saw Wang Xu getting up to leave, he moved closer and whispered: "Sir, the rent should be paid at the end of the month, let's pay the rent."
Wang Xu waved his hand and said with a smile: "What it was like before will be what it is in the future. Don't worry, I won't increase the rent."
Bill looked embarrassed, as if he still had something to say.
"Is there anything else?" Wang Xu was half an agent, and he quickly saw from Bill's expression that he still had something on his mind.
"The economy is in recession, and business has not been very good recently. Can our rent be reduced further?" Bill rubbed his hands, not daring to look at Wang Xu's expression.
Wang Xu lit a cigar for himself. Bill's tavern occupies an entire floor. The annual rent is two hundred dollars, which is not expensive.
"Business has been really hard recently. Look at this lunchtime. There are only four tables of guests at this time. A beer costs three cents, a steak costs ten cents, and a pasta costs five cents. Three or four people sit down to eat.
It was only fifty cents off the table, and after all the expenses, I couldn't even make twenty cents.
This is not bad, but the economy is in recession, and there are many customers who order a piece of pasta and a glass of cold water, so business is hard to do."
Bill muttered the calculations, and the only thing he wanted to do was to reduce the rent.
Wang Xu shook his head slightly. If business is not doing well, just go home and shovel the floor. Force yourself to do anything.
As for rent reduction, don't even think about it. The current Great Recession is all-encompassing. If the rent is reduced for Bill, will it also be reduced for those tenants?
Minus and minus, he might as well open a welfare home. Now that so many people are starving to death every day, should he sell the house and go to give porridge to the poor?
"Reducing rent, this matter needs to be considered in the long term. I am not a bad person. If others reduce rent, I will definitely reduce rent. If others do not reduce rent, I will be the first to reduce rent. Wouldn't that be causing trouble for myself? I am the worst person.
Afraid of trouble."
In modern society, shop owners in a community have their own internal groups.
Why, because you have to maintain prices and keep your guns open to the outside world. If anyone is half-hearted and doesn't say anything, others will definitely cause trouble for you.
Therefore, in order to avoid troubles such as rent, Wang Xu will not let go easily.
Regardless of how much Bill complains, there is still money to be made in this, otherwise, instead of discussing a rent reduction, he would be thinking about changing places.
Among other things, there are shops in the slums with rents of tens of dollars a year, so why don't you see him moving there?
"Uncle, Dad is working so hard, just do it, okay." During the stalemate, Bertie heard the noise and came up, acting cute towards Wang Xu.
Looking at Bertie's clear and innocent eyes, if Wang Xu hadn't seen through everything, he would have been deceived by her.
"This little prodigal, at such a young age, every look and every smile is a joke!" Wang Xu looked at Bodie's innocent eyes, and subconsciously thought of her in the utility room, where she was smiling and her eyes were charming and seductive.
Full of dancing.
Don't tell me, the little girl's dancing is really good. Now that I think about it, her breasts are full of brains.
"I'm bored, so it would be nice to dance like this."
Wang Xu took two puffs of his cigar. He would never admit that he was evil. He just appreciated art. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll give you twenty dollars off. Who makes me a kind person?"
"Thank you, uncle." Bod jumped up happily, stood on tiptoes, and gave Wang Xu a gentle kiss.
Wang Xu touched the left cheek that was kissed, wondering if Bod would turn pale with fright if he learned that the person watching her dance in the toilet was not Carmen, but his uncle.
"Okay, that's it. If I don't go out for dinner tonight, remember to bring me steak."
Wang Xu walked out with his book under his arm, waving his hand without taking away a single cloud.
Thinking about Bertie's dancing all the way, Wang Xu went up the stairs.
The fourth floor is not high. With Wang Xu's physical strength, climbing several floors is not even a warm-up.
And just when he was standing at the door of the fourth floor, about to take out the key and open the door, he felt someone peering at him.
"who?"
Wang Xu suddenly raised his head and looked at the source of the peek.
When I caught my eye, on the building next door, there was a big boy standing there. Who else could Carmen be if she wasn't a voyeur.
Seeing that it was Carmen who was spying on him, Wang Xu showed a disgusted expression. This guy was really a peeping tom. He was just spying on his childhood sweetheart, but he actually dared to spy on him.
Whoosh!!
Spotting Wang Xu's gaze, Carmen quickly shrank her head and hid behind the balcony.
In this world without large-scale stamping equipment and the era of large-scale steelmaking has not yet begun, the floors generally do not exceed four floors, and four floors are considered to be relatively tall buildings.
Carmen hid behind the balcony. From where Wang Xu was standing, he could no longer be seen. He could only rely on the faint sound of footsteps to tell that Carmen was sneaking away.
Feeling that Carmen had slipped away, Wang Xu smiled sarcastically.
If any other man dared to spy on his girlfriend, he would definitely beat that man's brains out, but Carmen didn't even dare to look at him, and walked away without letting out a fart. She really wasn't a man.
"This kid doesn't think I didn't see anything, does he?"
Wang Xu thought maliciously as he opened the door.
Soon, he rejected this view. If Carmen really thought that he saw nothing, she probably wouldn't monitor him with malicious intent.
This is interesting. A fifteen-year-old boy, after learning that his childhood sweetheart was exposed, was able to resist his impulse. This endurance is extraordinary. He is a person who has done great things. Just now
You should use your heavenly eyes to see his luck.
After all, those who can possess this kind of endurance will have an unlimited future.