After sitting down and questioning him for a while, Cao Mo finally understood what was going on.
Although Xikang Street has been renovated several times and the streets are much neater, the interiors of the courtyard houses are still very dilapidated. Many residents have either moved out long ago, leaving the houses empty and uncared for, or there is no money left for renovations, or the residents are older.
, no energy to clean up.
However, Xikang Street is located within the Second Ring Road, and is nearby a city sub-commercial center in Qingshan District. There are many high-end office buildings and shopping malls, and the demand for high-end rental houses is strong. As a result, there are good-looking and poor-looking houses near Xikang Street, with high rents.
big difference.
From the beginning, Cao Jiaying only rented out the extra rooms in his house to subsidize his family's income.
Later, she discovered that houses like the ones near Xikang Street that had been tidied up, the rooms vacated and simply renovated, and some warm home decorations were added, were particularly easy to rent. One room could be rented for upwards of 1,566 yuan.
At a total annual rent of 120,000 yuan, we successively signed long-term leases for three nearby courtyards with a total of 20 rooms. Then we invested almost 100,000 yuan in renovations and got them to an agency to rent them out at double the price.
Cao Jiaying has been doing this one after another for a year. Not only has the money invested been recovered, but with the four bedrooms in his own house, he can still earn an income of less than 20,000 yuan a month.
"Your sister is so powerful now. As a little rich woman, she is much better than the so-called white-collar workers like us." Cheng Xi put his arms around Cao Jiaying's shoulders and said doting on her, "She is still thinking about approaching Qing Street.
I rented an old three-story house in Tang and opened a B&B - she also lied to me and said it was you who instigated it, but this affected my studies too much, so I suspected that she might be lying to me and not agreeing to help her.
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"That old building is really nice. It's right in Tianzifang. You can see Qingjietang through the door in the backyard. Even if it's a waste of energy to make a B&B, you can rent it long-term and rent out the eight rooms." Cao Jiaying was dissatisfied.
Xi pouted in response to her suppression.
"What about your studies? You won't tell me that you plan to drop out of school, right?" Cao Mo asked angrily.
"Didn't you drop out of school? You want to teach me a lesson as soon as you come back." Cao Jiaying said unconvinced.
"Your wings have grown hard, be careful, I'll slap you." Cao Mo raised his hand and swiped it, but it gently fell on Jiaying's face which still had some baby fat, and he grabbed it and pinched it twice.
"Brother, why don't you apply to be transferred back to your country to work? Then I can study hard and you can take over the rental house business after working in Dongsheng. Isn't it no problem?" Cao Jiaying asked Cao Mo.
He pulled his hands from his face and said shakingly.
Looking at Jiaying's expectant eyes, Cao Mo felt a little soft-hearted, but how could he possibly leave behind the mess he was having at Kanem?
Cao Mo patted Jiaying's face lovingly and said, "I can't let go of the work at hand for now. I'll see if I have the chance to apply for a transfer back to my country after a while - isn't that old bastard about to be released from prison?
Let him do the work, so that he will not be able to find a job after being released from prison and cause trouble for us? By the way, where is the old woman? "
"The call didn't go through. I guess he hid somewhere to play cards and deliberately didn't answer my call..." Cao Jiaying said.
"Why don't you just send her a text message and ask me to return home?" Cao Mo said.
"I sent a text message, but she didn't reply. She probably thought I was tricking her into coming back to work and pretending not to see the phone." Cao Jiaying pouted.
"..." Cheng Xi patted his forehead, feeling quite speechless for Cao Mo's family.
"When you return to China this time, do you bring any gifts for Sister Cheng Xi and me?" Cao Jiaying looked at the two rather heavy suitcases with bright eyes.
Except for some limited craft products such as ivory and wood carvings, there is really nothing else worth buying and bringing back home in Kanem. This time, Cao Mo mainly bought a batch of high-quality rubies in Kanem and brought them back home, but they were not used for personal use.
The collection has not been cut, nor has it been made into necklaces, rings or other jewelry.
Also, when he was transiting in London, he bought three laptops at a duty-free shop, one for Song Yuqing as a gift, one for himself, and one for Jiaying.
Of course there are down jackets and the like, but he bought them according to Jiaying's height of 1.63 meters; if Cheng Xi hadn't grown any taller, he still remembered that during the physical examination in her senior year of high school, her height was 1.68 meters.
"Of course I bought a bunch of gifts, you can pick them out for yourself!" Cao Mo said. After saying this, he wanted to open the suitcase, but then he thought that he should slap himself. He is so stupid and can't speak. It's not obvious that he didn't give it to Cheng.
Want to buy a gift?
"I don't want any gifts," Cheng Xi said sensitively seeing Cao Mo's hesitation, "You have to treat us to dinner at noon. Yu Jing was kicked hard by your kick..." He turned around and called Yu
Two girls, Nv Jing and Chen Chang, came downstairs.
"Is Yu Jing okay?" Although Cao Mo saw clearly that the two girls were sneaking up on him and subconsciously restrained his strength, his kick was still not easy for the girls. He asked worriedly, "Do you want to go check it out?"
one time?"
"It's nothing. I heard from Cheng Xi that Yu Jing is known as a cow in their school. The position of your kick is just right. If you kick it off, there may be a big problem," Chen Chang walked downstairs and said,
"But at noon today, you must let us kill you severely, otherwise Yu Jing will really feel unbearable..."
Cao Jiaying was present, but Chen Chang did not directly say that Yu Jing had been spotted by Cao Mo. Instead, he smiled slyly and whispered to Cheng Xi to reveal all this.
"Chen Chang!" Yu Jing's face turned red with embarrassment. She stamped her feet at the stairs and called out to Chen Chang.
"What's wrong?" When Cheng Xi rushed over, the police car hadn't left yet, and then Cao Jiaying pretended to rush back from school. She knew that Cao Mo climbed over the wall into the courtyard and was beaten by Yu Jing and Chen Chang as a thief, but Yu Jing was beaten by Cao Mo
It was only after they were kicked down that they recognized each other's faces, and the key details were not revealed yet.
"It's nothing. I'm just kidding. Jiaying and her brother gave Yu Jing a bruise on her chest. If she really wants to kill him, Yu Jing won't suffer a loss." Seeing Yu Jing's embarrassed look, Chen Chang was afraid that she would fall out.
, hurriedly changed his words and discussed which high-end restaurant to kill Cao Mo at noon to vent his anger.
Cao Jiaying currently has more than 20 rooms that are very easy to rent. There is only one room left on the second floor of his house. A girl canceled the rent a week ago and has not been able to rent it out yet.
Yu Jing and Cheng Xi were in the same dormitory at university, and Chen Chang was Yu Jing's colleague who joined the company after graduation. He also just graduated this year and applied to stay in Xinhai.
According to Cheng Xi's introduction, two girls rented a room on the second floor from his house. In addition to the main room, there are two rooms downstairs rented to two couples who work nearby.
Because it is an old house, it has been simply renovated, and a small wing with a back patio of only four to five square meters has been transformed into a bathroom.
The conditions were still simple. Cao Mo saw that the rooms were newly paved with laminate flooring, but they were kept very clean and tidy.
The selection of curtains and home textiles is particularly warm. The furniture, including the sofa and coffee table in the main room downstairs, are not high-end goods, but they are very chic. You can’t feel the dilapidation of the old house. It can be seen that Jiaying took Cheng Xi to decorate these rooms with great care. Be careful.
Cao Mo moved his suitcase upstairs and asked Jiaying to help him pack his luggage and hang up his clothes. He took the time to turn on his computer and reply to emails to Lucy, Kabuga and Abacha, saying that he had arrived safely in Xinhai. .
He hasn't had time to apply for a domestic card yet, and he doesn't want to use a landline to make international long distance calls. Email is the most convenient way to contact him.
Before leaving Kanem, he spent an additional $100,000 in construction fees and asked the Oyo State Communications Company to pull a communication line into Ibogu, which finally solved the problem of using mobile phones and the Internet in the mining area and factories.
This also makes it easier for him to communicate directly with Kabuga and Lucy in China.
Otherwise, if we talk about work via satellite phone, the phone bill will be hundreds of dollars, which is really heartbreaking.
It is probably hard to imagine in China that the most prosperous city in West Africa would be so closed off to such an extent.
Cao Mo waited for Jiaying to help him pack his clothes. He also briefly browsed through the emails of the past two days. He went downstairs and saw three girls sitting on the sofa in the living room talking, and asked, "Have you chosen a good place?"
He had been away from Xinhai for three years and was not familiar with any high-end restaurants nearby. He left it to Cheng Xi and the others to decide where to eat for lunch.
"Cheng Xi, help you, don't let us kill you, choose a Hunan restaurant nearby!" Chen Chang muttered unhappily.
"Yu Jing is a girl from Hunan. Cao Mo treats her to make amends. Of course it must be to her taste." Cheng Xi explained, taking care of Cao Mo's face.
But Yu Jing didn't care and wasn't picky. She heard Chen Chang's dissatisfaction and helped explain: "The Hunan restaurant is very good. I've always wanted to eat something spicy. I almost forgot the spiciness when I ate with you before!"
Yu Jing was still very embarrassed when she saw Cao Mo and didn't dare to look at him seriously.
Both Yu Jing and Chen Chang are considered to be beautiful girls, but after a very short period of contact, you will find that the personalities of beautiful girls are really very different.
Jiaying is a little stingy, how can she be willing to let Yu Jing and Chen Chang kill Cao Mo?
Seeing that Yu Jing had no objection, she quickly picked up the Nokia mobile phone that Cao Mo sent back to China two years ago and made a reservation at a nearby Hunan restaurant.