Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 22. Accidents
As soon as the door opened, Dong Qiangqiang followed Yu Jianghai out of the elevator.

The floor of the corridor is a light blue hard plastic floor. If you look closely, you can see that it is not pure blue. There are many triangles, quadrilaterals and irregular shapes, large or small, light beige particles embedded in it.

Dong Qiangqiang glanced at his watch. At 18:40, he remembered the student dormitory in the past. If it was this time period, there would be people coming and going in the corridor.But in this long and narrow corridor, there was no one person, no sound at all, and it was frighteningly quiet, only the warm yellow light from the orange lamp on the wall.

Lao Yu walked unhurriedly in silence, slightly hunched over.Dong Qiangqiang started talking several times, but he didn't seem to hear it.

The two walked to almost the end of the corridor, Lao Yu reached out and gently pushed open a sky blue door and walked in.

这间屋子大约40平左右，从进门的左手开始，依次是橱柜1、洗碗池1、操作台、灶台1、大烤箱、单开门冰箱、橱柜2、双开门冰箱、灶台2、洗碗池2、操作台、洗碗机和消毒柜。橱柜1上摆放的是小烤箱，橱柜2上摆放的是微波炉。双开门冰箱上放着一台球面电视机。

In the center of the room was a rectangle made of several tables, with chairs neatly stacked beside it, and a few pots of green plants placed on the windowsill.

"That's the way the kitchen is." Lao Yu said with a blank expression.

While looking at the layout in the kitchen, Dong Qiangqiang made a murmur in his heart: It doesn't look like Lao Yu's attitude is to look for a tenant in a hurry, why is he not enthusiastic to introduce the situation to the tenant at all.

"Let's go to the bathroom." Before Dong Qiangqiang could answer, Lao Yu turned around and walked straight out the door.

The bathroom and kitchen are not far apart.

"The public toilet and the bathroom are together, and the bathroom is inside." Before Lao Yu could finish speaking, Dong Qiangqiang walked towards the bathroom.

At this moment, the small door of the bathroom opened, and a blond man wrapped in a bathrobe walked out from the inside. The two collided in the aisle between the bathroom and the toilet. Unprepared, his foot slipped. , fell to the ground.

The blond man who fell to the ground was stunned for a moment, then immediately opened his mouth and scolded him. Dong Qiangqiang felt embarrassed and reached out to help him, but the man ignored him and left cursing.

"The laundry room is downstairs. You can look at it when you leave. Let's go to the room first." Lao Yu suggested.

Lao Yu's room is not big, it doesn't seem to be 12 square meters as he said, and as soon as he enters the door, he smells a smoke.What surprised Dong Qiangqiang was that after entering the door, it turned out to be a one-square-meter porch.The bedroom is also a study and a living room at the same time, and it is more than 10 square meters.On the three-tier ledge in front of the desk, there was not a single book, except for a Japanese figure, filled with all kinds of empty red wine bottles.There was a laptop on the desk, next to a glass ashtray with seven or eight cigarette butts stacked in it.Next to the desk is a square dining table and next to the dining table is a single bed.A row of unopened red wines was neatly stacked under the window.

Seeing Dong Qiangqiang's slightly surprised gaze, Lao Yu probably guessed something.He pulled the quilt on the bed and sat down.

"The house is rented for heating, including water, electricity, and heating. I pull the internet cable myself. I do laundry in the downstairs laundry room, and I put coins separately every time."

"How much is the rent?" Dong Qiangqiang asked with concern.

Lao Yu rolled his eyes, looked out the window, and answered nonchalantly, "When did you come?"

"Huh?" Dong Qiangqiang was taken aback, "Does this have anything to do with renting a house?"

"Of course it has something to do with it. And it has a lot to do with it." Lao Yu said mysteriously, "You are new here and don't know how to live in a student dormitory, especially the international student dormitory has a lot of rules."

"Rules? What rules?" Dong Qiangqiang was a little impatient, "Is it different from China? Just say how much."

Seeing that Dong Qiangqiang was not good enough, Lao Yu curled his lips: "700 marks per month. The deposit is 1500 marks. If you need to open an address proof during the four-month extension, I will charge you an additional fee."

Dong Qiangqiang took a deep breath: "It's so expensive? I think the conditions here are similar to the student dormitory in the university, and it's only 450 marks there."

Dong Qiangqiang did not know the actual situation of the university dormitory, and he also heard about the 450 marks from Lu Wei.He wanted to see if there was any room for bargaining.

Lao Yu opened the window, lit a cigarette for himself, took a puff and said quietly: "This is an international student dormitory, unlike a university dormitory that can receive financial subsidies from the state. Although the rent is high, it is fully equipped and the transportation is very convenient. Convenient, isn’t it only 2 minutes from the subway? It’s also convenient to go to the university. And there are students from various countries living here, which is good for you to improve your language. In addition, I can also issue a proof of address for your convenience Visa extension. Many places will not issue proof of address for you.”

The last sentence Lao Yu said nonsense, he was testing Dong Qiangqiang.

Dong Qiangqiang was very hesitant: on the one hand, the rent is really not low, 700 marks a month, and the four-month rent plus the deposit is 4300 marks.For him to go abroad, the family also borrowed a lot of money from relatives.Although Jin Yuan just repaid the money, if he was asked to spend several thousand marks at a time, he not only felt distressed, but also felt a strong sense of guilt.However, since he got off the plane, he has hardly slept much, and his body and spirit have reached the limit. He hopes to solve the problem of the house as soon as possible, even if it is only for a few months.

"Only for four months?"

The old man nodded.

Just as Dong Qiangqiang was about to speak, he suddenly remembered what happened in the red light district, and quickly changed his words: "Are you the landlord? I sign a rental contract with you?"

"Of course not." Lao Yu raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders, "There is no contract."

This is beyond Dong Qiangqiang's expectations, and he encounters another "Jin Yuan"?
"The landlord is the International Student Dormitory Management Office. They rented the house to me, and I rented it to you temporarily. How could there be a contract between us?"

"Then are you going to take the money and run away?" Dong Qiangqiang questioned, "Who am I going to?"

Lao Yu chuckled, showing his yellow teeth: "I can't run."

"Why don't you run?"

Lao Yu looked at Dong Qiangqiang and suddenly asked, "What's your relationship with Lu Wei?"

"What's the relationship?" Dong Qiangqiang didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, "We met in front of the university library this morning."

Hearing Dong Qiangqiang's answer, Lao Yu's expression returned to the way he had been at the beginning.He snuffed out the cigarette butt, waved his hand, and signaled that Dong Qiangqiang could leave: "Let's go. I won't rent you anymore."

Dong Qiangqiang was stunned for a moment: Did the negotiation collapse before he even made a counter-offer?

He wanted to say something else, but Lao Yu pushed him out the door indifferently.

Standing in the empty corridor, Dong Qiangqiang only felt dizzy and haggard.

(End of this chapter)