(Thank you to the new alliance leader Fengyi Xia Zhongshan, and thank you to the Golden Alliance Shengtaoyu for your support. Well, I already owe two updates today, waiting...)
The Hunan restaurant for lunch is located in Tianzifang.
Tianzifang is just one stop away from Xikang Street, so Cao Mo walked directly there with the four girls.
The Shikumen buildings here are more typical. The Qingjietang next to it is a canal branch excavated in the late Qing Dynasty leading to the Huangpu River. Many of the old houses on both sides of Qingjietang were demolished in the early years, leaving only those in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.
It is now clear that the residential buildings must be preserved.
Qingshan District has also invested a lot of money to renovate the surrounding streets and alleys. Cao Mocai did not return home for three years. Suddenly, he discovered that in addition to the newly paved antique stone streets in Tianzifang, which was previously dilapidated, many businesses had come to invest and open stores.
There are also two or three small hotels and B&Bs.
It was the weekend today and there were a lot of tourists. Seeing this scene, Cao Mo thought to himself that no wonder his sister wanted to open a B&B here.
Cao Mo didn't know how Xinhai's economy had developed in the past three years. It was difficult to evaluate whether the B&B inn had any development prospects, but he knew one thing. If Jiaying really wanted to open a B&B inn, she wouldn't have time to study.
Jiaying also specially took everyone around to the house she had taken a fancy to before.
Different from the hustle and bustle in the outer streets, this old house is located in the corner of Tianzifang. It is very quiet. There is a notice for rent and sale at the door of the courtyard.
The building area is less than 300 square meters, with eight rooms, and the interior should be quite compact. The landlord said in the notice that it spent 300,000 yuan on renovations in 2000, and the price is 8 million, and the entire rent will cost 200,000 yuan per year.
The two girls, Yu Jing and Chen Chang, were speechless. It was hard to imagine that the price of this old house was comparable to the most high-end commercial housing in the central business district of Huaihai Road.
The cost of using this house as a long-term rental is a little higher. After all, there are very few single rooms in Xikang Street with a monthly rent of more than 2,000 yuan. It may be suitable to use it as a B&B, but it requires too much trouble. Cao Mo will not let it
Jiaying completely neglected her studies on this matter.
The Hunan Restaurant is located on the street of Tianzifang. A group of people went there and found a booth by the back window on the second floor. They could see the rippling Qingjietang River and the view was quite wide. There was also quite a lot of scenery across from Qingjietang.
The charming architectural complex of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
The Hunan restaurant is really affordable. Girls have limited appetites. Five people ordered five dishes and one soup, which roughly calculated to only cost 150 yuan.
Cao Mo remembered that he used to have dinner at the Lana Del Rey Hotel when he returned to Dracula Motor. It was so luxurious that he felt a little guilty.
However, when I thought about it carefully, every time I went back to the Lana Del Rey Hotel to dine, it seemed that he was not footing the bill, and I suddenly felt relieved.
While chatting during the meal, Cao Mo learned that Yu Jing and Chen Chang both worked at Yinguang Plaza, a high-end department store in Xinhai. Although they applied for administrative positions, according to the rules of Yinguang Plaza, newcomers had to stand at the counter for half a year.
They will have to work as interns at the counter until March next year before they can be transferred back to formal positions.
Cheng Xi did not go to graduate school after graduation, but applied for Hailian Commercial Bank. As a newcomer, she also had to intern at the counter for half a year - the branch where Cheng Xi interned was also in Yinguang Plaza; the three girls basically got together whenever they had the opportunity.
together.
The journey, which lasted more than 30 hours, was very enjoyable with Song Yuqing accompanying me, but after all, I was very tired after sitting all the way in economy class.
Song Yuqing could still get a few good naps against him, but Cao Mo's size was stuck in the small economy class seat, so he could only take a few naps to deal with it.
Although Yu Jing and Cheng Xi were both curious about what their experience of working in Africa would be like, and Cao Mo tried his best to answer their questions, but after dinner he just couldn't hold it anymore.
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After lunch, Cao Mo went home to catch up on his sleep. When he woke up at dusk, he saw Jiaying sitting on his bedside with an unhappy face, and asked curiously: "Why, who made you unhappy again?"
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"Sister Cheng Xi didn't plan to leave so early this afternoon, didn't you feel it? Why did you come back to China and still look so indifferent to others? You didn't even buy any gifts for them." Jiaying said angrily.
asked.
"Including transfers, I have been catching a flight for thirty-one hours. Grandma, if you want to excuse me, can you please allow me to wait for two days?" Cao Mo said with a bitter smile.
Of course he was still attracted to Cheng Xi when he first met him, but he was not a scumbag. He and Song Yuqing had just become deeply affectionate, and they broke up at home in the morning. They had arranged to meet at the company tomorrow, so he was courteous to Cheng Xi this afternoon.
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Besides, they haven't contacted each other for more than three years. Cheng Xi should have found someone she likes long ago, so Jiaying doesn't understand anything and still thinks about things wishfully.
"Where is the old woman? She hasn't come back from playing cards yet?" Cao Mo asked, changing the subject.
"You brat, you didn't even tell me in advance when you returned home. You just hope that this old guy like me will get excited and have a heart attack and die early!" As soon as Cao Mo finished speaking, a black shadow came towards his face.
He came over and said, "Aren't you afraid of being surprised and dying of surprise?"
"You have such a strong body, how could you die so easily?" Cao Mo caught a pillow and saw his grandma walking in. Her breath was as strong as three years ago, and her voice was as loud as three years ago, so he knew she was
The old man has not suffered much in the past three years.
"Tell me, why are you thinking of coming back after almost three years? You wouldn't find a black girl and give birth to a bunch of black babies in Africa! I can tell you that the old woman dislikes two kinds of people the most.
One is a racist, and the other is a black man! If you dare to give birth to a bunch of black babies outside, you will never come back to China again." Mrs. Cao warned very powerfully.
How could Cao Mo have imagined that Mrs. Cao would learn so many buzzwords?
He initially did not return to China mainly to save money.
Dongsheng gives overseas employees one month of family leave every year. If they do not enjoy family leave, Cao Mo can not only apply for overtime subsidies for family leave, but also report the company's subsidized air tickets - which is equivalent to more than 30,000 yuan inside and outside.
Income in RMB.
Once he gets involved in mining gold in Ibogu, there will simply be no time.
If he hadn't thought about returning to China to register a company this time, which required him to be there in person, he wouldn't have thought of returning to China.
However, if he knew that Jiaying had already had this economic acumen, he could have just asked Jiaying to register a trading company without returning to China, saving him the trip.
Of course, there is no need to mention this now. It is really not the same thing to just rent out all the rooms in your own home while Jiaying and the old woman go out to rent a small shabby room.
"By the way, I actually have to be able to make money in Africa. There is really no need to rent out my house to make the difference - besides, dad is about to be released from prison." Cao Mo didn't have the nerve to ask his dad when
After being released from prison, he said, "You don't have to wait until the end of the lease. If Jiaying still has a house on hand, you can subsidize their rent for one month or half a month. Our family will still have to live here!"
"That bastard, let him go out and find a house to live in!" Mrs. Cao got angry when she mentioned her eldest son, "There is no room for him here!"
"That's okay, I think he's upset too, but grandma, you and Jiaying are moving back in!" Cao Mo said.
"Jia Ying, a little money-crazy, persuade her yourself. I have worked hard for you all my life, and I no longer want to live in Zhou Xiaojiao's little shabby house. It's just such a small shabby house. You still have the nerve to ask us for 600 yuan a month.
Money." the old woman said.
"Grandma, if you play cards with Little Feet every month, you can earn back the rent," Jiaying said.
"That's what I won with my ability. You can't say that the rent she gave us is cheap - a dead old lady has so many houses in her hands. She can't take them with her even if she dies. She doesn't say she sees us as pitiful and lets us get free.
Stay in a room."
Mrs. Cao muttered dissatisfiedly, then suddenly thought of something and said to Cao Mo,
"By the way, this damn old lady Zhou Xiaojiao doesn't have a good relationship with her son and daughter-in-law. She just has a granddaughter. She just came back to Xinhai from studying in the UK a few days ago. She's a few years older than you, and she's not ugly. But let's not talk about him.
The son and daughter-in-law are both company executives. This week, the dead old lady with little feet has two demolished houses and a courtyard at the south entrance of the street. They are worth seven or eight million. The dead old lady kicked her feet and closed her eyes to ascend to the sky.
These houses must be reserved for my granddaughter... Because of this, I haven't been able to win much money from Zhou Xiaojiao in recent poker games - when are you free to meet her granddaughter? You have lower education, but you look better than your father
It looks good and will definitely please Zhou Xiaojiao’s granddaughter!”
"I'm not jet lagged yet, please let me sleep a little longer." Cao Mo said with a big head.
"Of the two girls in the house opposite you, the one named Chen Chang has the same personality as your aunt. She looks pretty, but she is as tough as you when she comes home. The one named Yu Jing has a really good personality, but
Her hometown is in the countryside of Hunan, and she said she has three younger brothers and sisters who are in junior high school. When they come home, you will be responsible for their whole family, and you will also suffer." Mrs. Cao stood on the bedside and said, "You
Don’t just think that someone is beautiful, so you don’t think so. In fact, I think this girl Cheng Xi is really good, she is pretty, she has a father who is a mayor, and a mother who is the chairman of the board, but her conditions are too good, you
Not good enough! It’s more practical for you to consider Zhou Xiaojiao’s granddaughter..."
Cao Mo directly pulled up the quilt and covered his head. After Jiaying and Mrs. Cao went downstairs, he sat up and opened the computer to read emails.
Song Yuqing left him a message on QQ and asked him if he had applied for a domestic mobile phone card. She had already contacted the administrative staff of the Overseas Department, but the Overseas Department could not contact him.
Cao Mo was not willing to buy a mobile phone before going abroad. Naturally, he did not have a domestic SIM card. He picked up the landline and dialed Song Yuqing's domestic mobile phone number: "Sister Yuqing, where are you now?"
"I'm at my parents' house. Why haven't you applied for a domestic card yet?" Song Yuqing asked on the phone, not to mention that she had been waiting all afternoon.
Originally, he had made an appointment to go to the business hall to apply for a card as soon as he arrived, but what happened to Cao Mo was that he encountered this situation when he returned home. After lunch, he felt very sleepy, so he went home to catch up on his sleep.
Hearing Cao Mo tell the whole story, Song Yuqing laughed and said, "You are so beautiful and blessed. When you return to China, you can live with two beauties, and your family will help introduce you to someone..."
"What's so good? The whole family has been torn apart. I don't know what my sister is thinking. Now she wants them to move out and free up the house, and she still has a headache," Cao Mo said with a headache.
"Although the things I bought back home are not very valuable, they would cost 600,000 to 700,000 yuan if I could resell them back home. I didn't plan to buy them out. I thought I would just keep them for fun, but now I can put them away."
There are unfamiliar tenants coming and going in the house, which is always unsafe. I don’t want to go to the bank to rent a personal safe for these things..."
Thinking of transferring part of the profits back to the country, although the customs inspection was strict, Cao Mo also purchased a batch of Kanem rubies for collection before returning to China - this batch of Kanem rubies was not worth 300,000 yuan in Kanem.
After taking the RMB, Cao Mo felt a little headache thinking that he would have to go to the bank to rent a private safe and possibly get a look from the bank staff.
"Your sister is really amazing. She is really a high school student. Does your family have the business gene?" Song Yuqing asked with great interest in Cao Mo's sister.
"She just knows how to mess around. If I hadn't come back this time, she might have rented a house in Tianzifang to run a B&B or an inn! She even dragged me over for lunch. Xiao Nizi is not old, but she is very evil.
Bad! I just pretended that I couldn't guess what she was thinking and didn't answer her," Cao Mo said.
"Ah, you guys also had dinner at Tianzifang at noon?" Song Yuqing said, "I also accompanied my parents and my brother to Tianzifang to eat Shengding Chicken at noon - it's a pity that I didn't meet him, otherwise I would have
It’s so cute to see what your sister looks like..."
Shengding Chicken is a local catering brand in Xinhai. Cao Mo passed by the entrance of Shengding Chicken at noon, but he didn't expect that Song Yuqing's parents lived six or seven kilometers away, but her family came to Tianzifang for lunch.
Cao Mo and Song Yuqing chatted on the phone. Hearing that Song Yuqing was very interested in the old buildings in Xinhai, he said, "I definitely don't dare to care about my sister too much now, otherwise Xiaonizi will become rebellious and may even my brother...
I don’t even admit it. How about I secretly buy the house that my sister is interested in, and then she will have nothing to do? This house is available for rent and sale - I will buy the house tomorrow and it can be done in a month
Is it easy to transfer the ownership?”
"You hid it from your family, so why did you buy that house?" Song Yuqing asked.
"I'll let you stay here," Cao Mo said.
"Bah, they say you are not allowed to blame us in China." Song Yuqing spat on the phone.