When Comrade Xu asked, he looked inside the courtyard. He was the first to knock on the door of this courtyard because it looked quite big from the outside.
Now when I look inside, I see it is indeed quite big.
Opposite the courtyard gate, there is a row of about six or seven bungalows. At this time, an old lady is choosing vegetables under the eaves, a woman in her forties is drying quilts on several long benches, and another one is holding a towel.
Looking at the half-year-old child rolling around in the yard with an iron ring, Tongdao Xu visually estimated that the boy was about five or six years old, with a tiger-like head and a big head.
"Yes! Yes! Have you brought your luggage? Haha, come on! I'll take you to see the room first. If you're satisfied, we can talk about it, okay? Haha."
As the old man got older, he spoke more slowly, and he spoke slowly, but he seemed very kind.
"Okay! I'm sorry to trouble you."
"No trouble! No trouble! Don't be so polite, young man, hehe, come on! I still have two vacant rooms here, both on the far west side..."
The old man walked in staggeringly on crutches while introducing Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin.
Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin followed, listening to the introduction and looking at the environment in the yard.
The yard is quite clean, and the ground is paved with blue bricks, except for a little unevenness.
That's the toilet over there! To the east is my kitchen. If you want to use boiled water, come to my kitchen to get it! If you rent a house here, I will provide you with a bottle of boiled water every day. This is the treatment for every house in the yard, haha...
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Following the old man's introduction, Comrade Xu also noticed that the toilet was under the west wall, only about two or three meters away from the westmost room. In summer, the smell might be a bit loud.
After all, toilets these days, even those in county towns, are still old-fashioned. When the weather is hot, the smell will definitely not be good.
Perhaps because of this, the two rooms near the toilet are still vacant and no one is renting them.
Xu Tongdao also noticed that since they entered the courtyard, the old lady who was choosing vegetables under the eaves, the woman who was drying the quilt, and the little boy who was rolling the hoop were all looking at him and Xu Tonglin curiously.
Especially the little boy, who stared at them curiously with his big eyes, without any concealment.
When Tongdao Xu saw the iron ring in his hand and the wire hook in the other hand, he smiled slightly and felt very kind, because he also loved to play with this when he was a child.
He even had a good impression of the little boy playing with hoops, so he winked at the little boy with his left eye.
The little boy gave him a bright smile in return, and then ran over with a hoop in his hand.
"Grandpa Li, someone else wants to rent your house?"
As soon as the little guy ran over, he talked to the old man.
The old man touched his little head and nodded with a smile, "Yes! Yes! You go and play first. Grandpa Li will show the house to his two elder brothers first..."
"Oh, okay!"
The little boy ran a little further away, but still looked here curiously.
Xu Tonglin suddenly turned around and made a face at him. Not only did he not scare the boy, but he actually made him laugh.
"Come here! Providence!"
The woman who had already dried the quilt frowned and shouted. The little boy looked back at her, said "Oh", and ran over with a smile.
Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin followed the old man into the westmost room and took a look. This room was quite big. Xu Tongdao visually estimated that it was about three meters wide and about six meters long. It was much larger than the small single room he wanted to rent.
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"This room needs to be bigger. I think you two should live together, right? Haha, so I will show you this room first. How do you like it? Are you satisfied, young man?"
The old man explained with a smile.
This room has two windows, and the lighting is... not bad! After all, it is a bungalow, and there is a toilet not far in front, so although there are two windows in the front and back, the lighting is not very good, but it is not bad either.
Inside, by the window, there is an old desk and an old wooden bed. The width of the wooden bed... Mr. Xu visually estimated that it is about one meter and two meters.
Such a wide bed is more than enough for one person, but if two people sleep, they will have to squeeze in, and even if they are squeezed, they can sleep.
Comrade Xu didn't care much about these things. What he mainly valued was that it was close to the alley and there was a big yard outside.
What he is most concerned about at this time is...
"Uncle, your surname is Li, right? Then we will also call you Grandpa Li?"
"Haha, you can do whatever you want! You can do whatever you want! How about it? Are you satisfied with this room?"
The old man touched the white hair on his head with a smile on his face and looked like he was talking very well.
Xu Tongdao looked at Xu Tonglin beside him and said with a smile: "Grandpa Li, this house is very good. We like it very much. But the rent... How much does your monthly rent for this room cost?"
Speaking of the rent issue, Xu Tonglin, who was still looking at the room, also looked over.
He knew that they did not have enough funds to come to the county this time. Not only did they have to rent a house, but they also had to save enough money to set up a stall.
"Haha, the rent here is not expensive. If you two young men really want to rent, I won't ask you for more. It's 80 yuan a month. If you decide to rent! Just pay one month's rent first plus one month's rent.
The deposit is 160 yuan in total, haha.”
"160?"
Xu Tonglin repeated it and looked at Xu Tongdao.
When he came out this time, he didn't bring much money with him. He mainly wanted to hang out with Xu Tongdao, so whether to rent a house here mainly depends on Xu Tongdao's wishes.
"Grandpa Li, can you show us the empty room next to us again?"
Comrade Xu did not make a decision immediately.
"Okay! Of course it's no problem. Come with me!"
The old man took the two of them to look at the room next door. Sure enough, the room next door was indeed smaller. The main reason was that except for the two most easterly and westmost rooms in this row of bungalows, the other rooms had a room more than one meter wide in front of them.
Overhanging eaves.
It is because of the overhanging eaves of this house that the adjacent room is several square meters smaller.
There is also an old desk and an old wooden bed about 1.2 meters in the room.
"Grandpa Li, how much is the rent for this room?"
This time it was Xu Tonglin who asked.
"Haha, this one is 70!" the old man replied with a smile.
At this moment, a very strange sound came from the next room. Xu Tongdao and Xu Tonglin looked at it at the same time, as if something was hitting the wall. The sound was not loud, but it was very rhythmic.
Xu Tonglin's eyes were puzzled, "What's the sound?"
Before his rebirth, Xu Tongdao, who had rich experience and was married, had already guessed the reason, but he was not interested in explaining it to Xu Tonglin. Xu Tongdao looked at the old man.
But I saw that the old man seemed to have poor hearing. He still had a smile on his face and seemed not to hear the abnormal noise coming from next door at all.
Comrade Xu smiled bitterly. He originally wanted to save some rent and rent this smaller room.
But he was afraid that the noise next door would happen more often in the future. He and Xu Tonglin were both still young, and they were afraid that they would not be able to keep up with their nutrition in the future. It would not be worthwhile to spend more on food just to save some rent.
"Grandpa Li! We want to rent the one just now, but can the rent be cheaper for us?"