"Five hundred? Why don't you go and grab it!" the fat man shouted loudly, and everyone in the restaurant looked towards us.
I have seen my mother bargaining, and she always cuts in half, which is already the ceiling in bargaining. I didn't expect that my second uncle would just cut in half.
For a moment, I didn't know whether I should say good things to my second uncle, or feel sorry for my second uncle and Lulu. Our quality of life has plummeted, and we actually started to bargain.
But I didn’t expect that prices in the city would be so expensive. My second uncle’s deposit of 4,000 yuan was in our village. That’s a huge amount of money that would take many people decades to earn. I didn’t expect that it would only be enough in the city.
Rent a house for two months.
My heart dropped, and the anticipation I had just felt towards the outside world was suppressed by reality.
The fat man's brows stood up. There were two grooves on his eyebrows, which were particularly obvious when he frowned. Combined with the thick flesh on his face, it looked like there was a "rice" character lying on his fat, yellow face.
"Country bumpkin, if you can afford it, rent it. If you can't afford it, it's a waste of my time? Your time is not valuable, but my time is very valuable! What the hell!" the fat man said, standing up and walking angrily toward the door.
My second uncle was scolded for nothing, which made me feel sad and tears welled up in my eyes.
Lulu looked over and said, "Second uncle! If you don't want to rent, you won't rent! He's not the only one who has a house to rent!"
The second uncle smiled at us and said nothing, but drank tea leisurely.
I noticed that the fat man walking towards the door slowed down, as if he was waiting for his second uncle to catch up, but after waiting for a while, no one stopped him.
The fat man turned around and walked back, standing in front of our table, still looking at the three of us with his nostrils: "Well, after all, it was my cousin who introduced me here. One thousand and five dollars, no more."
The second uncle still spit out two words: "Five hundred."
"You!" The fat man's big fleshy palm slapped on our table. The chopsticks on the bowl in front of me were knocked off and rolled to the floor with a squeak.
I bent down to pick it up and heard his voice from above: "One thousand and four."
"five hundred."
"...One thousand! If it's less, you can rent someone else's house! Let me tell you, our house is newly renovated, with new water and electricity, two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom, and a balcony.
In the center of the city, with such good conditions, you can’t find another one!”
"five hundred."
"Rub, one thousand!"
I sat up and saw Lulu looking at me strangely.
I also find it strange that even though two thousand is a bit much, the waiter just now said that a house with three floors or more in the city center can be rented for about one thousand two thousand.
The second uncle said five hundred, but this fat man who seems to be hard to talk to can still hold on for so long... Could it be that he can't rent out his house?
But why can't I rent it out?
The second uncle was already picking up his red cloth bag: "It's only five hundred. If you can rent it, rent it. If you can't rent it, we'll find another one."
The second uncle had already decided to leave. The fat man gritted his teeth and said, "...Okay!"
He angrily went out to find the key.
The second uncle called the waiter to pay the bill.
The waiter glanced outside the door and saw that the landlord was looking for something in the back seat of the car.
"Brother, I shouldn't be saying this as an outsider." The uncle, the waiter, said with the action of picking up the bowl, "But there is a problem with the house in Baiguyuan."
The second uncle's hand holding the red cloth bag stopped: "What's the problem?"
"I can't tell you, but the residents there are either broke or sick, just like that person." He pointed out with his chin, "In his house, the last tenant died in it, and the last tenant lived there.
Yue just moved away, you took your two children with you..."
The landlord walked into the house, and the waiter quickly shut up.
The second uncle took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to him: "Thank you, we will come often in the future."
The waiter refused for a few times, but couldn't resist the second uncle. He finally took the cigarette and left his phone number for the second uncle. He said that it was not easy for the second uncle to have two children. He was not familiar with the place and his home was in the hotel.
In the community behind me, I can contact you often and I can help you.
The waiter is really a warm-hearted and kind man.
The second uncle answered the phone number, carried a big red cloth bag, took Lulu and us, followed the landlord, crossed the wide road, and arrived at the gate of Baiguyuan.
As we got closer, I felt that this community was too desolate.
The ground was paved with bluestone tiles, which had been crushed by something large and cracked inch by inch.
Under the neatly arranged orange-red residential buildings, the small trees planted were withered and dead.
We entered through the gate and walked directly to the end. The building said b6...
"What does this mean?" Lulu came over and asked me.
I thought for a long time and could only think of the Pinyin syllables: "bpnf, b6?"
Lulu scratched her face and said dubiously: "Bo Liu?"
The fat landlord crossed his arms and shook his legs. He glanced at Lulu and us, mocking us as much as we wanted. Even if he didn't speak, I felt like he was calling us "bumpkins."
"Unit 1, come in." The fat landlord shrugged and walked in front, the flesh on his waist trembling.
Lulu, our gazes can pierce him to death.
But Lulu and we couldn't hold on for long. The landlord's house was on the sixth floor, the top floor. After climbing up to the sixth floor, Lulu and we were almost exhausted.
Thinking about having to climb stairs like this in the future, I almost want to cry.
There are four households on the sixth floor. They are on both sides of the stairs going up. The doors of the two households facing each other on the right are covered with various small notes. The security door outside is also covered with dust. It looks like no one lives there.
The landlord went to the left. He stopped in front of the door with '601' written on it and unlocked it.
While we were waiting, there was a sound of howling ghosts and wolves coming from 602 opposite, which sounded like a child. It was also mixed with a woman's scolding and a sound similar to a feather duster hitting the flesh.
Lulu and we both shuddered. Whose child was in such a miserable state, being shown off with a feather duster.
Lulu was shaking even more violently, and her pupils were a little dilated, probably because she was thinking of the time when she was abused before.
I grabbed Lulu's hand worriedly: "Lulu, don't be afraid."
Lulu paused for a moment, turned around and relaxed after seeing me.
At this time, the landlord opened the door. The moment he opened the door, a cold breath suddenly hit his face.
I am so familiar with this breath. It is both cold and full of negative emotions. It blew on me and made me feel depressed all of a sudden.
Is there a ghost in this house?
"Let's go in and have a look," the landlord said.
The second uncle was the first to go in, followed by Lulu and I. The landlord closed the door last. Once the door was closed, the voices on the other side were no longer heard.
The second uncle put the red cloth bag at his feet and led us to look back and forth in the house. After walking into the bedroom to make sure the landlord couldn't hear, the second uncle bent down and asked me: "Girl Yun, is there a ghost in the house?"
At this time, I was so shocked that I didn't know how to speak.